This is a Russian Mi-8 helicopter. They are used for search and rescue as well as lifting cargo. This is the 'type' of helicopter reported as shot down over Chechnya.
If Russian forensics links the USA/CIA to any of the deaths including the munitions to crash the helicopter, this might be some of the first deaths of note in the USA v. Russia war. The manner in which the deaths occurred very much reflects the type of incident commonly occurring with the USA military. Although sometimes it's jets. With the change in posture of Russia and President Putin in his last Presidential Address to Russia it is a good estimate possible terrorists are escalating the many fronts that Russia might face in their new direction of taking control away from them.
A British Lynx helicopter which crashed in Basra, southern Iraq, last May was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, an investigation has found.
Five service personnel died when the aircraft plunged into a two-storey house in the centre of the city.
The incident sparked violent clashes between local people and British forces.
Among the dead was Flight Lieutenant Sarah Mulvihill, the first British servicewoman to die in action in Iraq.
If Bush can be traced to this, he can easily be impeached. The American people need to remove him from office. He and Cheney are far too imflammatory a president and vice. The circumstances of increasing international instability are directly related to their outrageous rankor.
