--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/4/07 8:51:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Name a single incident where they actually fired a weapon rather than locked > their radar > on. > > > I'll give you several in a single three month period in 1999 just in the > northern no fly zone. If you'll read the whole thing , you'll notice that yes, > they were bombed each time they locked their radar on, but there were several > incidents of actually firing on with anti aircraft artillery and Surface to > air missiles, just in this one three month period. There are more. _Operation > Northern Watch_ (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/northern > _watch-1999.htm)
MDixon's absolutely right on this, Lawson. I don't know where the idea that the Iraqis never fired on U.S. planes got started, but it's just wrong, unless the military is blatantly lying.
