THE FARMER WHO SHOT DOWN THE APACHE HELICOPTER? Turns out it was a hoax, according to the BBC:

“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.”

What? Lies from the Iraqi Information Ministry?