Tuesday August 10 7:16 AM ET
U.S. Air Force Bombs Iraq Sites For Second Day
BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. planes bombed two Iraqi
communication centers near the northern city of Mosul
Tuesday after being fired upon by Iraqi anti-aircraft
artillery, the U.S. Air Force's European Command said.
The attacks on sites to the north and northeast of Mosul, the second U.S.
strike in the region in as many days, took place
between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Iraqi time, the German-based command said
in a statement.
It said all aircraft charged with monitoring the no-fly zone over northern
Iraq returned safely.
It added that the extent of damage caused by the F-15 and F-16 jets, which
dropped laser-guided bombs on the targets, was
still being assessed.
The bombings are the latest in a series of incidents involving American and
British jets and Iraqi air defenses after Baghdad
said in December it would not recognize Western-enforced no-fly zones set
up after the 1991 Gulf War.
The monitoring of the northern no-fly zone, codenamed Operation Northern
Watch, is a joint U.S., British and Turkish
operation.
