>From Electronic Telegraph <http://www.telegraph.co.uk> Western airstrikes in Iraq 'kill 19' By Hugo Gurdon BRITISH and American military jets killed 19 people and wounded 11 yesterday in attacks on northern and southern Iraq, said Baghdad officials. If the report is accurate, the death count was one of the highest for a single day in clashes following the four-day Desert Fox raids. Those were carried out by the United States and Britain last December after Iraq expelled United Nations weapons inspectors. Yesterday's action was reported to have been staged by the jets in response to enemy fire. The Pentagon would not comment on the reported deaths, saying only that the attacks followed Iraqi "provocation". The US European Command in Germany confirmed that F-16s and F-15s bombed missile sites in the northern no-fly zone, near the city of Mosul. But there was no confirmation of a report from the Iraqi News Agency of a separate raid in the South in which 11 people were said to have been killed. The Ministry of Defence later denied that British aircraft had taken part in the raids. 1 August 1999: Britain urges easing of sanctions to end UN impasse on Iraq 31 July 1999: US planes attack Iraq for fifth day running 28 July 1999: American planes hit Iraqi sites 20 July 1999: Iraq claims 17 civilians killed in US strike 21 December 1998: 70-hour blitz doubles tally of Desert Storm 17 December 1998: Allies launch blitz on Iraq © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 1999. Terms & Conditions of reading. Commercial information.
