DJ US Warplanes Bomb Iraqi Communications Sites
02/26/2003
Dow Jones News Services
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WASHINGTON (AP)--U.S. warplanes bombed two military communications sites in southern Iraq Wednesday, the U.S. military said, marking the fourth U.S. strike on Iraq in two days.
U.S. planes bombed the two communications sites, which help tie together Iraq's air defense network, at about 8:35 a.m. EST, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command.
The two sites were between Baghdad and Al Kut, which is about 90 miles southeast of the capital, and between Al Kut and An Nasiriyah, about 170 miles southeast of Baghdad, Central Command said.
On Tuesday, U.S. planes bombed mobile surface-to-surface missile equipment and a mobile surface-to-air missile launcher in southern Iraq near Basra, which is about 35 miles from the border with Kuwait. U.S. planes also hit three mobile surface-to-surface missile launchers in northern Iraq.
All of the strikes were within the southern and northern no-fly zones.
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