--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > In a message dated 1/4/07 8:51:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, > > sparaig@ 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. >
I was wrong. However, note that the vast majority of cases were as I said. The Iraqis generally didn't have time to mount an attack once the radar was detected.
