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To: pallmer who wrote (4025)	12/13/2002 3:58:49 PM
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To: pallmer who wrote (4025)	12/14/2002 2:04:38 PM
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-- UPDATE 1-Western planes strike targets in southern Iraq -- (Updates with Iraq military spokesman, previous Washington) BAGHDAD, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Iraq said U.S. and British warplanes attacked civilian targets in the south of the country on Saturday, but the U.S. military said the planes targeted Iraqi air-defence facilities. The U.S. military said allied planes used precision-guided weapons to target the facilities in response to "Iraqi threats against coalition aircraft" in the southern "no-fly" zone enforced by the United States and Britain. The targets were at Al-Kut, about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Baghdad, and Qal'at Sukkar, about 170 miles (160 and 270 km) southeast of the capital, the U.S. Central Command said from the MacDill Air Force base in Florida. "The coalition executed today's strike after Iraqi military aircraft violated the southern no-fly zone," a statement said. An Iraqi military spokesman, quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency, said U.S. and British planes bombed "civilian and service installations" in the provinces of Wasit (Kut), Meisan (Amarah) and Dhiqar (Nasiriya) south of Baghdad. "At 0755 a.m. (0455 GMT) today, U.S. and British warplanes carried out 44 sorties from bases in Kuwait, flying over Artawi, Samawah, Qurna, Nasiriya, Qal'at Sukker, Kut, Nu'maniya, Kerbala, Diwaniya, Amarah and Basra," he said. "The planes attacked civilian and service installations in Wasit, Meisan and Dhiqar provinces," the spokesman said, adding they had been repelled by anti-aircraft and missile fire. Iraqi air defence forces have fired at U.S. and British aircraft more than 470 times and violated the southern no-fly zone on 13 separate days this year, the U.S. statement said. In the same period, allied aircraft have responded by striking Iraqi military targets more than 80 times. Iraq says the air raids often hit civilian sites, killing innocent people. Washington says civilians are never targeted. The exchanges have gone on since the 1991 Gulf War but have increased sharply in recent months. The United States has threatened to attack Iraq if it does not abide by a U.N. resolution to disclose any weapons of mass destruction it may possess. Iraq says it has none. Iraq does not recognise the no-fly zones, set up after the Gulf War to protect a Kurdish enclave in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from possible attack by Iraqi forces. (C) Reuters 2002. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. n3584695 Symbols: RU;LKOH US;LUKO DE;LUK DE;LUKS DE;LUKF DE;LUKX 14-Dec-2002 19:01:12 GMT Source RTRS - Reuters News