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No-fly zone hit third time in three days
Coalition aircraft dropped precision bombs early Monday on an Iraqi communications site near Al Kut, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad. It was the third such strike the past three days by U.S. and British warplanes patrolling the southern no-fly zone. U.S. defense officials told CNN coalition aircraft in recent days noticed Iraqis had repositioned three surface-to-air missile launchers in the no-fly zone — the largest number of launchers seen in the area in months. Now they can have the largest amount of wreckage seen in the area in months... According to the U.S. Central Command, Monday's strike specifically was in response to the movements of a mobile radar into the no-fly zone and the firing of Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery. That continuous popping into the air seems like an exercise in futility, since they never hit anything. Maybe they're having a lot of weddings? Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-17 |
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