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| Iraq Warplanes Shooting May Cause Trouble |
| 2002-11-16 |
| Iraq fired surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns at American and British warplanes patrolling a "no-fly" zone Friday — a move the U.S. considers to be a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution. Hmmm... Bad thing. Not a surprise, but a bad thing... Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. David Lapan said Iraq fired surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery at coalition planes. The shots came from Iraqi positions near the southern city of An Najaf, said Cmdr. Dan Gage, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command. In retaliation, coalition planes used precision-guided weapons to attack an air defense communications facility near An Najaf about 85 miles southeast of Baghdad, the Pentagon said. Sounds like a reasonable response: you fire missiles at us, we take out your missile site. On Saturday, an Iraqi military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency that the coalition planes bombed areas in Najaf province, 93 miles south of Baghdad on Friday, killing seven and injuring four others in the process. "All the dead and wounded were puppies, kittens, baby ducks, and children under the age of six..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 My sources tell me it was the Najaf baby milk factory. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-11-16 17:20:20 |
| #1 well, duh! letting puppies, kittens, baby ducks, and children under the age of six man your antiaircraft sites is why Iraq hasn't hit anything yet....AFLAC! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-11-16 16:05:53 |