Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Rather Orwellian language, considering that it is the US that is violating Iraq's airspace! U.S. Planes Bomb Targets in Iraq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------------------------- > > <A HREF="aol://4344:3167.iraq.21067926.666815971"> AOL News: U.S. Planes > Bomb Targets in Iraq</A> U.S. Planes Bomb Targets in Iraq > > .c The Associated Press > > WASHINGTON (Aug. 7) - U.S. fighter planes bombed an air defense site in > northern Iraq Tuesday after taking fire from Iraqi surface-to-air missiles > and anti-aircraft artillery, U.S. officials said. > > In a written statement, the U.S. European Command said the bombing was in > self-defense. Officials said it was not a planned attack in response to the > recent near-miss Iraqi attack on a U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane. > > European Command said the U.S. aircraft, which flew from an air base in > south-central Turkey, departed Iraqi airspace safely. > > Tuesday's exchange north of the city of Mosul was the latest in a > long-running series of attacks and counterattacks in northern and southern > Iraq, where U.S. and British aircraft enforce ''no fly'' zones established > shortly after the 1991 Gulf War. > > Vacationing in Texas, President Bush defended the missions as fully in > accordance with international law. > > Iraqi President ''Saddam Hussein is a menace and we need to keep him in check > and we will,'' Bush told reporters Tuesday. ''He's been a menace forever and > he needs to open his country for inspection so we can see whether he is > making weapons of mass destruction.'' > > Iraq considers the ''no fly'' zones to be illegal and has mounted a sustained > effort to shoot down a U.S. or British plane. > > Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said last Friday that Iraq has rebuilt > its air defenses since U.S. and British warplanes attacked radar and > communications targets around Baghdad on Feb. 16. > > Rumsfeld offered no indication of whether or how the United States would > respond, but he seemed to hint that any retaliation would go beyond the > limited set of targets in the February raid. > > ''One tends to want to do things that will have somewhat more lasting > effects,'' he told a Pentagon news conference. > > He noted that the February attacks struck air defense sites that had been > linked by fiber-optic cable to make them more effective. The problem, he > said, with striking those cables is that they get re-laid. > > AP-NY-08-07-01 1140EDT > > Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news > report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed > without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active > hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. > > ------------------------------------------------- > This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has >been shut down > ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
