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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36012)	8/5/2002 3:45:12 PM
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About 2 hours ago: U.S. Planes Strike Iraqi Facility The Washington Post The Associated Press Monday, August 5, 2002; 1:20 PM washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON ?? Airplanes from the U.S.-British coalition patrolling southern Iraq bombed an Iraqi military facility Monday, the U.S. Central Command said. The coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons to strike an Iraqi command and control facility at about 1 a.m. EDT, a Central Command statement said. The attack was a response to Iraqi actions that threaten the U.S. and British planes patrolling the no-fly zone over southern Iraq, the statement said. Central Command says Iraq has fired on coalition planes 70 times this year. An Iraqi military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency Monday that "enemy warplanes bombed civil and service installations in al-Nukhayb," about 250 miles southwest of Baghdad in the desert between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The spokesman gave no further details. Monday's strike was the latest in a series of flare-ups in the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq. Coalition planes struck Iraqi targets six times last month. The no-fly zones were created after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Iraqi dissident populations from president Saddam Hussein's military. Saddam says the zones are a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and his military often tries to shoot down warplanes patrolling the areas. © 2002 The Associated Press

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