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To: Second_Titan who wrote (72222)	9/3/2000 5:24:28 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 95453

Speaking of Sadaam, this is unlikely to make him more conciliatory towards the Bubba/Gore administration in the upcoming OPEC talks: dailynews.yahoo.com Saturday September 2 5:04 PM ET U.S. Confirms Bombing of Iraqi Targets WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military officials said on Saturday that Western planes had struck targets in southern Iraq early on Saturday morning and returned safely to base. ``The strikes came in response to anti-aircraft artillery fire directed yesterday against coalition aircraft enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions,'' the U.S. Central Command said in a news release issued from Macdill Air Force Base in Florida. U.S. officials said the intent was to ``degrade Iraq's ability to jeopardize coalition pilots and aircraft'' that patrol no-fly zones in Iraq. The last coalition strike against Iraqi targets was on August 30. U.S. and British planes patrol no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq set up after the 1991 Gulf War. The zones, which Baghdad does not recognize, were imposed to protect a Kurdish enclave in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from possible attacks by Iraqi government forces. Britain said none of its aircraft were involved in the strikes on Saturday. U.S. and British planes have frequently bombed targets in the no-fly zones since December 1998 when Baghdad stepped up its defiance of the restrictions. Iraq says 311 civilians have been killed and 927 wounded in these attacks. The U.S. Central Command said coalition aircraft ``do not target civilian populations or infrastructure'' and also said that, since December 1998, Iraq had fired anti-aircraft artillery or missiles at coalition aircraft or violated the southern no-fly zone nearly 700 times. In Baghdad, the official Iraqi News Agency INA quoted a military spokesman as saying ``enemy formations'' flew over Basra, Dhi qar, Muthanna and Najaf provinces at 4 p.m. (1200 GMT), attacking civilian and service installations. The Iraqi spokesman said Iraqi air defense units fired on the jets and forced them to return to their bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.