Turkey's parliament agreed to allow US aircraft to fly through Turkish airspace to attack Iraq, but it denied Washington's request to station 62,000 US troops in Turkey.
Commenting on whether Iraq had captured any US troops, Sabri said, "Today when I left Baghdad, Iraqi fighters downed an American aircraft ...You know that on board there is one pilot or more. Details about that will be announced later."
In an interview with Syrian television on Saturday, Sabri had said: "Today, on my way here from Baghdad, we heard the sound of explosions. We looked to the sky and we saw an American plane falling from the sky after being hit by an Iraqi rocket. It fell in front of us in the area of Abu Churayv."
The town is about 20km west of Baghdad.
The US has not reported losing any warplanes in the Iraq campaign to topple the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Sabri said his country would not need financial aid from fellow Arabs after the stoppage of the UN-administered oil-for-food program but it wanted Arab governments to take a stand alongside Iraq.
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