From: Nancy Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Source: ABCNews.com > Published: 1/30/01 > > Iraq says seven people injured in air raid on south > > BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said seven people were injured when Western planes > attacked civilian targets in the south Sunday and Monday. A military > spokesman quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency INA said: "At 19:10 p.m. > (11:10 a.m. EST) Sunday and 12:10 p.m. (4:10 a.m. EST) today American and > British planes violated our space flying from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and > flew over provinces of Basra, Dhi qar, Qadissiya, Kerbala, Najaf and > Wassit." "The planes attacked > our civilian and service installations, injuring seven people," the > spokesman said. > > Iraqi air defense units fired on the jets and forced them to return to their > bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. There was no immediate comment from the > United States or Britain whose planes patrol no-fly zones set up by Western > powers after the 1991 Gulf War. > > Iraq said last week 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 forces. > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
