Are the US media conspiring with the Pentagon? This happen yesterday.
<<U.S., U.K. Raid on Iraq Involved 100 Aircraft, Telegraph Says
By Paul Tighe
London, Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- About 100 U.S. and U.K. aircraft took part in an attack yesterday on Iraq's main western air defense installation, the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph newspaper said without citing anyone.
Only 12 of the aircraft dropped bombs on the target, the report said. The other aircraft, including fighter jets and refueling planes, were used to support the attack. The raid may have been designed to destroy Iraqi air defenses to allow special forces to fly in by helicopter, the report said. It was the biggest single operation over Iraq in four years, the Telegraph said.
The raid was carried out in response to ``recent hostile acts,'' U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, said in a statement yesterday. The warplanes fired ``precision-guided weapons at positions at a military airport about 240 miles (386 kilometers) west and slightly south of Baghdad,'' it said.
The U.S. and U.K. have enforced no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War. They were set up to protect the Kurdish minority in the north and the Shiite Muslim population in the south, both areas of opposition to President Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi government doesn't recognize the zones. U.S. President George W. Bush will outline his case for action against Iraq's President Saddam Hussein at the United Nations General Assembly next week after consulting with world leaders.
(Daily Telegraph 9-6)
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