From: Nancy Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- > Monday, September 10 6:55 PM SGT > Eight killed in US-British air raids over southern Iraq > BAGHDAD, Sept 10 (AFP) - > Eight people were killed and three wounded in US-British air raids over > southern Iraq on Sunday, the official INA news agency said Monday. > > The raids hit Salhiya region, in Wassel province, around 170 kilometres(105 > miles) south of Baghdad, INA said, blasting "another savage attack by the > United States and Britain against Iraqi citizens." > > The deaths take to 365 the number of people Baghdad says have been killed in > US-British raids since December 1998. > > British and US warplanes patrol no-fly zones imposed over northern and > southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War to protect the regions' Kurdish and > Shiite Muslim populations against Baghdad. > > Iraq does not recognise the zones, which are not authorised by any > specific UN resolution. Since December 1998, Iraq has mounted a determined > effort to down the patrols with anti-aircraft fire > and surface-to-air missiles. > > _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
