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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (3960)	12/26/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: Tim Luke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90042

Saturday December 26, 8:59 am Eastern Time FOCUS-Iraq says fires at attacking Western planes (Adds more detail in paragraph 4, previous reports of airspace violations) BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Iraq said its air defences fired at Western planes attacking a post in southern Iraq on Saturday, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) said. ''At 11:25 (0825 GMT) this morning formations of enemy planes...attacked one of our air defence positions which confronted them and forced them to drop their load indiscriminately,'' an Iraqi military spokesman, quoted by INA, said. The Iraqi armed forces usually use the term ''confronted'' to mean firing anti-aircraft weapons. It was the first time Iraq had said it fired at Western planes since a four-day air blitz by U.S. and British forces ended last weekend. The spokesman did not say exactly where the incident took place. He said the planes, flying from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, violated the Iraqi airspace at 9:15 a.m. (0615 GMT) but flew outside the range of anti-aircraft guns. The Iraqi army said on Tuesday that Western aircraft had fired two rockets near the southern city of Basra. The United States and Britain quickly denied the report. Iraqi state media released pictures and film footage of what it said showed the aftermath of the two rockets fired at air defence targets near Basra. It was not possible to verify whether the rockets were fired on Tuesday or during the air campaign. The army said on Thursday Western planes violated Iraq's southern airspace for a third straight day but did not report any exchange of fire. U.S., British and French planes, based in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, patrol a no-fly zone in southern Iraq to prevent Baghdad from threatening its Shi'ite Moslem population.