- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
U.S. Central Command said Western warplanes, responding to hostile acts,
Tuesday struck an Iraqi military radar system in the no-fly zone south
of Baghdad. "In response to Iraqi hostile acts against coalition aircraft
monitoring the southern no-fly zone, Operation Southern Watch coalition
aircraft used precision-guided weapons today to strike a military mobile
radar near Al Kut," the Tampa, Florida-based military command said
in a statement posted on its Web site Wednesday.
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- The statement said the strike came at 5:00 P.M. (2100
GMT) after Iraq placed a military mobile radar south of the 33rd parallel
and flew military aircraft into the southern no-fly zone. The U.S. military
was conducting a damage assessment, the statement said.
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- The last coalition strike in the southern no-fly zone
was on Sept. 28 and targeted a military mobile radar near Al Basrah, the
U.S. military said.
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- U.S. and British jets enforce two no-fly zones in northern
and southern Iraq set up after the 1991 Gulf War.
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