A vast crowd of many thousands was fired upon by artillery and a helicoptergunshipflown by members of the presidential guard.
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If that does not do the trick, we'll call in agunshiptomorrow and loose off some rockets.
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Survivors said that onegunshipcircled overhead while another opened fire, hovering so low that the crowd could see the gunner's face.
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One side is an occupier; the other is an occupied people fighting against helicopter gunships, jet fighters and tanks.
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It has a role in attack, in anti-tank attack, and as a helicoptergunship.
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Helicopter gunships and heavy-handed military tactics in crowded urban streets can only feed the resentment and the disorder that recruits for militancy.
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Using helicopter gunships against a civilian population is an outrage anywhere in the world at any time.
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Will they be by helicopter gunships to ensure that the unemployed are following up the workfare scheme?
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The regime responded by attacking them with helicopter gunships.
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One woman's baby had been injured as she fled through the trees from a helicoptergunship.
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Offensives by ground forces are accompanied by aerial attacks by low-flying helicopter gunships which hunt and mow down women and children.
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There should be serious discussions before the helicopter gunships drop their napalm.
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Front-line strike aircraft and helicopter gunships would be cut to an equal ceiling of 500 on each side.
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As regards the reports that have been received concerning the activities of the helicoptergunship, they are unconfirmed.
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With regard to the breaking of the cease-fire, when one declares such a cease-fire but is then attacked by a helicoptergunship, what does one do?
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