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Moreover, one of the veterans' claims that Mr Kerry was not even under fire in the incident which won him a Bronze Star has been undermined by the Washington Post, whose reporters found that one of the anti-Kerry veterans won a Bronze Star himself for the same incident, and his citation describes a firefight.
Five Iranians were detained, and a firefight nearly broke out between American troops and peshmerga fighters.
Asked by William Roney, the soldier's brother, if the Apache's presence was needed, Captain Winstanley replied: "We could have won the firefight.
With Mr. Dykes disoriented, four men moved in, engaging in a brief firefight.
"There was a firefight," said Sean McCormack, the principal State Department spokesman.
There was a firefight that lasted all night.
He'd gone into a building where there was a firefight and got hit.
"I actually made the reservations when there was a firefight going on outside," he said.
"We were pretty much winning the firefight which means we pushed them back to a safe distance and hopefully they were going to move off into the night," he said.
The robbery occurred on the main commercial thoroughfare in the Baya neighborhood — Street No. 20 — just before noon, prompting a firefight with Iraqi police officers and soldiers that the gunmen evidently won.
