BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi troops came under heavy gunfire after they captured an alleged Shiite militia leader Friday in the holy city of Karbala, prompting them to call in an airstrike in a battle that left some 17 militants dead, the military said.The fighting in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, broke out after the joint U.S.-Iraqi force detained a man the military described as a rogue Mahdi Army
The raid took place without incident, but a gunbattle began after the troops left the building and faced attackers wielding small-arms fire, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from three separate locations, the military said, adding that five militants were killed in the fighting.
U.S. special forces called in attack aircraft after militants fired on a helicopter assisting the operation and about a dozen militants were killed in an airstrike, the military said.
Not a good idea to attack the helicopters with small arms fire - the boss ain't gonna get sprung!!!
You do the crime - you do the time