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To: pallmer who wrote (4159)12/18/2002 1:26:26 PM
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-- DJ Iraq: US, UK Warplanes Attacked 'Civil' Installations --


WASHINGTON (AP)--An unidentified Iraqi military spokesman told the official
Iraqi News Agency on Wednesday that U.S. and U.K. planes attacked "civil"
installations about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.
The spokesman said "aggressive U.S.-British warplanes attacked our civil and
service installations in Wasit province ... at 11:55 Baghdad time."
"Our courageous anti-aircraft units confronted the warplanes and forced them
to leave our skies for their bases in Kuwait," the spokesman added.
Earlier Wednesday, U.S. defense officials said that Iraqi forces moved a
mobile radar unit into the country's southern no-fly zone and U.S. aircraft
bombed it Wednesday.
U.S. aircraft used precision-guided weapons to target the radar system near Al
Kut, southeast of the capital, officials said.
U.S. and U.K. coalition planes monitor a northern zone to protect the Kurdish
minority from Iraqi forces and U.S. planes fly the southern zone to protect the
Shiites. Iraq considers the decade-old restricted zones a violation of its
sovereignty and regularly shoots at pilots and uses various air defense
equipment to track and harass them.
Hostilities between the Iraqi and coalition pilots have become routine. Other
coalition bombings this week were launched on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. On
Monday coalition aircraft also dropped nearly half a million leaflets over Iraq
in the latest warning to Iraqi forces not to shoot at coalition planes and not
to rebuild air defenses.
U.S. planes flying in neighboring Kuwait, from which some of the no-fly zone
patrols originate, also last week began broadcasting propaganda messages into
Iraq criticizing President Saddam Hussein in an effort to weaken his support
among his people and, in particular, his military.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires
12-18-02 1325ET- - 01 25 PM EST 12-18-02

18-Dec-2002 18:25:00 GMT
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