Iraq

Iraq Says US, British Jets Attack Its South, North
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Monday January 22 12:52 PM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said U.S. and British planes struck targets in the north and south of the country on Monday but reported no casualties. An Iraqi military spokesman, quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency INA, said American and British planes flying from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia violated Iraq's air space at 1:25 p.m. (5:25 a.m. EST). The planes flew over the southern provinces of Basra, Meisan, Dhi qar, Qadissiya, Muthanna and Wassit and attacked civilian and service installations, the spokesman said.

He said other formations of U.S. and British planes flying from Turkey also attacked targets in north of the country.

``At 11:35 a.m. today American and British aircraft violated our space coming from Turkish territory...and flew over the provinces of Duhouk, Arbeil and Nineveh, attacking civilian and service installations.´´ he said.

Iraqi air defense units fired on the jets, the spokesman said. There was no immediate comment on the report by the United States or Britain, whose jets patrol no-fly zones set up by Western powers after the 1991 Gulf War.

Iraq said on Saturday six people were killed in a Western air attack on the southern province of Muthanna.

Western planes have frequently bombed targets in the no-fly zones since Baghdad stepped up its defiance of the restrictions two years ago. The zones, which Baghdad does not recognize, were imposed to protect Muslim Shi'ites in the south and a Kurdish enclave in the north from possible attack by Baghdad's forces.

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