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US strikes Iraqi missile site in no-fly zone
U.S. and British jets Tuesday bombed an Iraqi mobile surface-to-air missile platform that had been moved into the southern no-fly zone, potentially endangering coalition aircraft enforcing the zone. The missile system was south of Al Amarah, 165 miles southeast of Baghdad, when it was struck, at around 2 p.m.Sucks to be a Iraqi SAM crewmember. This is the second strike in the southern no-fly zone in December. The first occurred Dec. 1 against air defense facilities between Tallil and Al Basrah. Coalition aircraft have also blanketed the area with nearly 250,000 leaflets warning Iraqis not to fire on coalition aircraft or repair communications and radar facilities damaged by bombing raids. There have been two strikes against Iraqi military facilities in the northern no-fly zone in December after coalition aircraft came under artillery attack. Does Iraq build their own SAMs under license, or were all these imported? Seems they use up a lot of them. Posted by: Steve 2002-12-10 |
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