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| Iraq Fires Missiles At US, British Jets |
| 2002-09-01 |
| Iraq said on Saturday said it had fired surface-to-air missiles at US and British warplanes overflying the south of the country, forcing them to "flee" to their bases in Kuwait. "Missiles and ground defences opened up on enemy warplanes that staged armed sorties" over 10 localities in southern Iraq, "forcing them to flee to their bases in Kuwait," said a military spokesman quoted by the official INA news agency. "Alistaire?" "Yes, Reginald?" "The Heroic Iraqi Forces are firing missiles at us." "So they are. Shall we flee?" "Yes, I believe we should flee." Baghdad said that allied warplanes patrolling "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq launched a bombing raid for the fifth time in a week. An Iraqi spokesman said the targets were civilian although a US statement insisted they were military. "Bob?" "Yes, Albert?" "There are some civilian residences directly below us." "Oh, good. We should bomb them." The Iraqi spokesman told INA that it was the second time in as many days that British or US aircraft had struck the same facilities in Al-Kut province, 240 kilometres southeast of Baghdad. He made no reference to any casualties. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |