[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 5:39 PM Subject: Iraq Says One Dead, Two Hurt in Western Air Raid [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get greater financial power with NextCard(r)Visa(r) Transfer balances to an APR as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing. 24-hour online account management and Rewards Points for every dollar you spend. APPLY NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iraq Says One Dead, Two Hurt in Western Air Raid http://news.excite.com/news/r/010428/15/international-iraq-raid-dc Updated 3:40 PM ET April 28, 2001 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said U.S. and British planes raided the south of the country on Saturday, killing one person and injuring two, but Britain denied the report. A military spokesman, quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency INA, said U.S. and British jets attacked civilian targets in Najaf province, 100 miles south of Baghdad. A British Ministry of Defense spokesman in London gave a different version of events. "We did have a coalition patrol flying over southern Iraq today in the no-fly zone," he said, referring to the swathe of southern Iraq from which Iraqi aircraft have been banned for the last decade. "They were attacked by Iraqi ground forces, but there was no response -- no weapons were dropped," the British spokesman said. The Iraqi spokesman said the planes also flew over the provinces of Basra, Dhiqar, Muthanna and Qadissiya. Iraqi anti-aircraft defenses eventually forced them back to their bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, he added. An Iraqi official said authorities would take Western journalists to the scene of the incident on Sunday. U.S. and British jets patrol no-fly zones set up after the expulsion of Iraqi troops from Kuwait in 1991 to protect Kurdish dissidents in northern Iraq and anti-Baghdad Shi'ite Muslims in the south from President Saddam Hussein's army. Iraq does not recognize the no-fly zones. Since 1998 U.S. and British forces say they have been regularly threatened by Iraqi anti-aircraft units and have fired bombs and missiles back at them. U.S. and British forces have also staged large-scale raids on wider targets in Iraq. Related Stories Iraq Says One Killed, Two Hurt in Western Air Raid (Apr 28 1:45 pm ET) Iraq Says Western Jets Bomb Southern Region (Apr 28 12:49 pm ET) ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
