This was one heck of a gun battle against Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq:

Noman Jawar Deahim was a hard man to kill.

With just two armed companions, Deahim held off more than 60 U.S. and Iraqi troops in a firefight that lasted more than three hours.

He was killed by Iraqi police, but only after a U.S. helicopter shot a Hellfire missle into the cement block house where he and two other fighters made their last stand during the Jan. 16 gunbattle.

Even at that point, Deahim, badly wounded, managed to shoot one Iraqi policeman dead and wound two others before he and one fighter were killed by a point-blank blast of machine gun fire. The third managed to get away.  [Stars & Stripes]

Make sure to read the whole article because this gun battle was quite a fight that ultimately led to the death of a top Al Qaeda financier in Iraq.