From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: 3rd US attck on Iraq this week AFP. 24 January 2002. US warplanes strike southern Iraq for third time this week: US military. WASHINGTON -- US warplanes struck in southern Iraq Thursday for the third time this week, attacking an anti-aircraft artillery site in the Al-Faw peninsula, a spokesman for the US Central Command said. It followed air strikes Monday and Wednesday on anti-aircraft artillery sites near Tallil, about 270 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Baghdad. In Baghdad, a military spokesman said US and British warplanes bombed "civilian and public installations" in southern Iraq Thursday for the third time this week, but he did not report any casualties. US and British "aircraft struck at our civilian and public installations" in Nasiriyah, 375 kilometers (235 miles) south of Baghdad, and Basra, 550 kilometers (345 miles) south of the capital, on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, he said, quoted by the official INA news agency. "Enemy warplanes flying from Saudi and Kuwaiti airspace ... staged 23 armed sorties" on Wednesday and Thursday only, said the spokesman, without giving a total for the three days. "Iraqi missile and anti-aircraft (fire) forced the planes to flee to their bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait," the spokesman said. It was unclear whether the air strikes were in response to an upswing in Iraqi challenges to US and British aircraft patrolling no-fly zones, or reflected a greater US air presence over southern Iraq as hostilities in Afghanistan wind down. Merriman would not say whether the latest strike was in response to a specific Iraqi attack, or merely a latent threat to US and British aircrews. Baghdad does not recognize the no-fly zones enforced by US and British warplanes over northern and southern Iraq since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, and which are not sanctioned by any UN resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
