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To: Alex who wrote (29177)2/28/1999 6:37:00 PM
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Pentagon Unsure If Planes Hit Iraq Oil Pipeline
06:06 p.m Feb 28, 1999 Eastern

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon cannot say if a U.S. air
attack earlier Sunday in northern Iraq hit a pumping station along a
major oil pipeline and has stopped crude oil from flowing to Turkey,
as alleged by Iraq.

''All indications are we hit our intended targets,'' which were an Iraqi
air defense headquarters and radio relay station near the city of
Mosul, about 240 miles (390 km) north of Baghdad, a Pentagon
spokesman told Reuters.

However, the spokesman said damage assessment of the U.S.
bombing was currently underway.

An official with Iraq's Oil Ministry in Baghdad said that the attack
''resulted in the stoppage of crude oil pumping through the
Iraqi-Turkish pipeline.'' The pipeline carries about half of Iraq's crude
oil exports to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea.

A military spokesman for the U.S. European Command said earlier
Sunday that after coming under Iraqi attack, U.S. planes fired three
air-to-ground missiles and three laser-guided bombs on the Iraqi air
defense headquarters and radio relay

A short time later F-15E aircraft dropped two 500-pound (230 kg)
and three 2,000-pound (910 kg) laser guided bombs, he said.

Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited
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