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To: pallmer who wrote (4159)	12/18/2002 1:26:26 PM
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-- DJ Iraq: US, UK Warplanes Attacked 'Civil' Installations -- WASHINGTON (AP)--An unidentified Iraqi military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency on Wednesday that U.S. and U.K. planes attacked "civil" installations about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad. The spokesman said "aggressive U.S.-British warplanes attacked our civil and service installations in Wasit province ... at 11:55 Baghdad time." "Our courageous anti-aircraft units confronted the warplanes and forced them to leave our skies for their bases in Kuwait," the spokesman added. Earlier Wednesday, U.S. defense officials said that Iraqi forces moved a mobile radar unit into the country's southern no-fly zone and U.S. aircraft bombed it Wednesday. U.S. aircraft used precision-guided weapons to target the radar system near Al Kut, southeast of the capital, officials said. U.S. and U.K. coalition planes monitor a northern zone to protect the Kurdish minority from Iraqi forces and U.S. planes fly the southern zone to protect the Shiites. Iraq considers the decade-old restricted zones a violation of its sovereignty and regularly shoots at pilots and uses various air defense equipment to track and harass them. Hostilities between the Iraqi and coalition pilots have become routine. Other coalition bombings this week were launched on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. On Monday coalition aircraft also dropped nearly half a million leaflets over Iraq in the latest warning to Iraqi forces not to shoot at coalition planes and not to rebuild air defenses. U.S. planes flying in neighboring Kuwait, from which some of the no-fly zone patrols originate, also last week began broadcasting propaganda messages into Iraq criticizing President Saddam Hussein in an effort to weaken his support among his people and, in particular, his military. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 12-18-02 1325ET- - 01 25 PM EST 12-18-02 18-Dec-2002 18:25:00 GMT Source DJ - Dow Jones