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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (93704)	8/14/2001 12:22:47 PM
From: kingfisher	Read Replies (1) of 95453

What a paradox!The fuel provided for British and American warplanes bombing Iraq may have been produced in Iraq! Keep pumping that oil Sadamm!LOL ........................................................... U.S. Warplanes Bomb Iraqi Radar Site in Second Raid in a Week By Todd Zeranski Washington, Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. warplanes bombed a radar site in southern Iraq today, the second time in less than a week that American forces have attempted to disable Iraq's increasingly active air defenses, a Pentagon spokesman said. ``This was in response to Iraq firing at aircraft and further efforts to create the ability to better target the aircraft,'' said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Lapan. All aircraft returned safely, although Lapan said he didn't know how many were used in the action. The jets bombed a radar installation linked to a surface-to- air missile site 170 miles southeast of Baghdad near Nasiriyah, the same area hit in a raid on Friday. Twenty U.S. and British warplanes last week bombed three targets -- a long-range radar site 70 miles southeast of Baghdad, a surface-to-air missile site and a fiber-optic communications node near today's target. Allied jets patrol so-called no-fly zones, established after the 1991 Gulf War to protect the Kurdish minority in the north of the country and the Shi'ite Muslim population in the south. U.S. officials have expressed concern that Iraq is stepping up its efforts to shoot down a British or American plane patrolling those zones, where Iraqi flights are restricted. Limited clashes between patrolling aircraft and ground-based Iraqi defenses have become an almost daily ritual in the no-fly areas. Iraq has fired on allied aircraft or ``painted'' them with ground radar about 400 times this year, up from 221 such instances last year. The price of crude oil was little changed on news of the attack. Crude for September delivery was up three cents to $27.85 a barrel in late-morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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