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Over 400 Civilians Killed in U.S.-British Air Strikes Against Iraq, Claims Moscow MOSCOW, Mar 8, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Some 420 civilians were killed and more than a thousand injured by the joint U.S.-British air strikes against Iraq since the first operation in December 1998, the Russian foreign ministry said Wednesday. In addition, the United States and Britain had stepped up their patrolling of the no-fly zones in Iraq in February, the ministry charged, adding that missiles were launched against civilian targets. "The U.S.-British patrols concentrated their attention on the southern Iraqi provinces, violating Iraqi air space 890 times," the foreign ministry's statement said. Russia was among the staunchest critics of the U.S.-British overflights, insisting that the no-fly zones were established without UN approval and were illegitimate from the point of view of international law. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse)
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