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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (47816)	9/29/2002 1:21:54 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 281500

Iraqi radio: U.S. air strike hits radar at civilian airport usatoday.com BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq said a U.S. airstrike hit a radar system at its airport in the southern port city of Basra early Sunday, the second attack there in three days. A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport and Communications said the attack took place at 12:45 a.m. The official Radio Baghdad announcement did not mention casualties. It said the strike further damaged buildings at the airport 330 miles south of Baghdad. There was no immediate confirmation of the attack from the United States. The past week has been a heavy one for U.S. strikes on Iraq as part of routine patrols of the so-called no-fly zones, as global debate heightens over U.S. threats to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for allegedly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and harboring terrorists. The standoff has focused new attention on patrols by U.S. and British warplanes over swaths of southern and northern Iraq declared off-limits to the Iraqi military since shortly after the 1991 Gulf War to protect restive Shiite and Kurdish Iraqis. Last week, allied aircraft enforcing the southern "no-fly" zone hit eight targets, including the Basra airport on Sept. 26. The United States said it targeted a mobile air defense radar system at the airport, which it says has military and civilian uses. Iraq says the airport is civilian. Officials repeatedly have charged that Saddam moves military equipment to nonmilitary sites in hopes coalition forces will not strike for fear of injuring civilians.