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Subject: [pttp] Fw: [Cuba SI] Iraq: 8 Killed In UK/US Raids - BBC
'Eight killed' in Iraq raids
Iraq says this missile was fired in an earlier air raid
Eight people were killed and three others injured in a Western missile
strike south-east of Baghdad on Sunday, the official Iraqi news agency (INA)
has reported.
It said a number of farms had been hit in an attack by US and British planes
patrolling the southern no-fly zone.
"America and Britain committed yet another savage aggression that targeted
Iraqi civilians when their planes attacked the al-Salihiya area in Wasit
province, killing eight and wounding three," INA said.
The Pentagon has said that US Air Force F-16, Navy F-18 and British Tornado
GR-4 aircraft struck missile sites near al-Numinayah, al-Kut and Tallil, all
south-east of Baghdad.
It said all the planes returned safely to base.
Iraqi techonology 'improving'
The United States has accused Iraq of upgrading its military technology and
developing weapons of mass destruction in the absence of international
monitoring.
Speaking shortly after the raids, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said
Iraqi efforts had been gathering pace since UN weapons inspectors left Iraq
in late 1998.
US and British warplanes have carried out four other attacks on Iraqi air
defences since 25 August to enforce the no-fly zones imposed after the 1991
Gulf War.
But Washington says Iraq has improved the effectiveness of its air defences,
posing a greater danger to allied planes.
Mr Rumsfeld said the Iraqis had been "working diligently to increase their
capabilities in every aspect of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic
missile technology".
Speaking on Fox television, he said: "That problem, particularly biological
weapons, over the coming decade is going to be an increasingly serious one".
A variety of techniques would be needed to hit Iraqi weapons sites, some of
which were mobile or underground, he added.
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