From Electronic Telegraph < http://www.telegraph.co.uk > july 31, 1999 US planes attack Iraq for fifth day running AMERICAN war planes bombed anti-aircraft artillery sites in Iraq's northern "no-fly" zone for the fifth day running yesterday after coming under fire during a routine patrol. The US European Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, acting in "self-defence", bombed sites north and north-west of Mosul, Iraq's second city. All the aircraft returned safely to the Incirlik air base in south-eastern Turkey after the strike, and the military was assessing damage to Iraqi forces, the statement added. Incirlik is home to American and British aircraft which patrol the northern no-fly zone imposed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf war to protect the region's Kurdish population. 28 July 1999: American planes hit Iraqi sites 28 July 1999: Iraq claims 17 civilians killed in US strike
