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from NO SANCTONS - IRELAND - best f. knew it, cld cry - what tomorrow?
RAF Jets Bomb Iraqi
Targets
From Ananova
Friday August 10, 2001
6:42 PM
RAF jets have been
involved in a 50-plane
allied air strike on Iraq
aimed at taking out
key elements of Saddam
Hussein's air
defence network.
Four British Tornado GR-4
bombers,
based in Kuwait, are
understood to have
joined 26 USAF attack
planes and 30
American support aircraft
for the raid on
three locations in the
south of the country.
Defence sources said the
action came in
response to continual
efforts by the Iraqis
to shoot down allied
pilots patrolling the
southern no-fly zone
imposed to protect
minority populations
after the 1991 Gulf
War.
The raid was the biggest
since February,
when allied aircraft
bombed the Iraqi
capital Baghdad, but this
time there were
no flights north of the
33rd parallel, which
marks the limit of the
no-fly zone.
A Ministry of Defence
spokesman said:
"This was the biggest
since February, but
only because we have had
quite a quiet
period since then. These
sort of
operations were happening
regularly last
year.
"As a matter of routine
they are shooting
at our aircraft and every
now and then we
have to take action to
manage the risk to
our aircrew."
The latest targets
included
communications
facilities, surface-to-air
missile sites and radar
stations.
Initial assessments were
that the attack
had been successful and
there was no
indication of civilian
casualties, said the
MoD.
It is believed the UK
planes came under
fire but none was hit and
all returned
safely to base.
The MoD would not discuss
how many
were involved in the
operation or to which
squadron those taking
part belong.
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