Quote of the Day:
"I didn't shoot down an Apache or anything else.
"All that happened was that I went to the field, as I usually do early in the morning, and was surprised to find some bodies on the ground. I began to rub my eyes to make sure that what I was seeing was true or whether I was imagining it. When I realised that it was really true, I was overcome by fear and rushed to the nearest government post to inform them that there was a plane in my field.
"A large number of [Ba'ath] party members and security men came with me to investigate. They told me that it was an American Apache aircraft and made me stay with them until someone who they said was a senior official arrived. I didn't know who he was. They asked me to say what you have heard on the TV satellite channels - that I shot down the plane with an old gun, a Brno."
- Ali Abid Minqash, elderly Iraqi farmer, once widely reported to have downed an Army Apache attack helicopter in Iraq
Posted by Alan at April 23, 2003 11:39 PM