What happened to the chopper attacks?

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This is also good news.

In an unrelated development, U.S. forces on Saturday killed a man they said was the organizer of a well-planned guerrilla assault in January in which gunmen, posing as Americans, drove into a government compound in the southern Shiite holy city of Karbala, killed a U.S. soldier, then abducted four other U.S. soldiers, who were later killed.

Azhar al-Dulaimi was killed in a raid on a building north of Sadr City, a large Shiite district in the capital, said Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, the U.S. military's top spokesman in Iraq. He said Dulaimi initially appeared to surrender but was shot while attempting to grab a soldier's gun and died en route to the hospital.

Dulaimi was linked to the Karbala attack by fingerprints found at the scene, Caldwell said, adding that other evidence showed that Dulaimi was trained by Iranian intelligence operatives and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. Dulaimi was also linked to the kidnapping of an Iraqi American soldier in October and a mass kidnapping at an Iraqi Education Ministry building last year, Caldwell said. There was no indication that the Iranian government had ordered the Karbala attack, Caldwell said.

Shows what I know. This is the first Iraqi Shia I've heard of from the al-Dulaim tribe. I have read on some Iraqi blogs that having al-Dulaimi on one's ID card can get someone shot at certain Shia-run checkpoints in Baghdad.