Iraq Says 3 Injured in U.S., British Air Raids

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Iraq Says 3 Injured in U.S., British Air Raids

Three Iraqi civilians were injured when warplanes of the United States and Britain bombed southern Iraq late on Thursday, an Iraqi military spokesman said on Friday.

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Three Iraqi civilians were injured when warplanes of the United States and Britain bombed southern Iraq late on Thursday, an Iraqi military spokesman said on Friday.

The military spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency that at local time 23:30 (1930 GMT) on Thursday, the U.S. and British planes, which took off from their bases in Kuwait, carried out 30 armed sorties over southern Iraq.

"The enemy planes attacked our civil and service installations in Thi-Qar Province and wounded three people," the spokesman said.

This was the fifth time since May 20 that U.S. and British jets raided the two no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq.

Thi-Qar Province is located in the so-called southern no-fly zone, which was set up by the United States-led Western allies after the 1991 Gulf War to allegedly protect the Shiite Muslims there from the persecution of the Iraqi government.

A similar air exclusion zone was also set up in northern Iraq to allegedly protect the Kurdish population there.

Iraq has never recognized the two air exclusion zones for lack of clear authorization by the United Nations and has regularly opened fire at the patrolling Western planes.

In a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said that U.S. and British air raids on the two no-fly zones since their setup had left 1,142 Iraqis dead and 1,261 others wounded.

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