From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wednesday June 6 6:27 AM ET Iraq Confirms U.S. Jets Bomb Southern Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi newspapers on Wednesday confirmed that American planes had attacked installations in the southern Iraq on Tuesday. The U.S. military had said in Washington on Tuesday that American jets enforcing a ``no-fly?? zone over southern Iraq had attacked an anti-aircraft artillery site ``in response to recent Iraqi hostile acts.?? The Iraqi papers quoted an Iraqi military spokesman as saying that the attacks had been on unspecified civilian installations and that British planes had also been involved. He said the planes had flown out of bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and been driven off by Iraqi anti-aircraft defenses. Western powers established no-fly zones in the north and south of Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991 to help protect a Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from possible attacks by Iraqi forces. Last Monday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said improvements in Iraqi defenses had increased the risk of an American plane being shot down. U.S. military commanders overseeing operations over Iraq have said it might be necessary to cut back on the enforcement flights in the face of increasing and more effective attacks on them from the ground. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
