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U.S. warplanes thump two sites in Iraq
American warplanes bombed two anti-aircraft missile sites in southern Iraq early Saturday, the U.S. Central Command announced. U.S. pilots bombed two mobile, surface-to-air missile sites near Basra, Iraq's major port about 245 miles southeast of Baghdad, at about midnight EST, Central Command said in a statement. The strike was the fourth in the Basra area this week - the second in as many days - by American planes patrolling the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. Basra, the country's second-largest city, is only about 35 miles from the border with Kuwait. Still in the background noise stage here... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-15 |
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