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Mosul launchers get thumped...
U.S. warplanes bombed missile launchers in Iraq's northern no-fly zone on Wednesday, with American military officials calling them a threat to air patrols over the restricted zone.
That's a fairly accurate description of antiaircraft missiles...
The strike brought to 47 the number of days this year that such bombings were reported by the United States and the United Kingdom coalition. Coalition planes targeted precision-guided weapons at an "imminently hostile surface-to-air missiles system" Iraqis had set up northwest of Mosul in the northern zone, said a statement from the U.S. European Command.
They turn on the radars, they're hostile. They don't turn on the radars, there's a good chance they won't even be noticed...
The system included two missile launchers, an official at the Pentagon said on condition of anonymity. He said Iraqis did not fire on coalition planes but their presence in the zone was a threat to the pilots who patrol.
Wonder if they were Sammy's truck-mounted SA-3s?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=7259