US, British Air Raids Injure Citizen in Northern Iraq

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US, British Air Raids Injure Citizen in Northern Iraq

Warplanes of the United States and Britain bombed northern Iraq on Wednesday, injuring one Iraqi citizen, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

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Warplanes of the United States and Britain bombed northern Iraq on Wednesday, injuring one Iraqi citizen, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

The unidentified spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) that at 14:05 (1005 GMT), U.S. and British planes, crossing into Iraq from their bases in Turkey, carried out 10 armed sorties over the northern provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Neineva.

The hostile planes bombed "civil and service" installations in Neineva Province and wounded one civilian, the spokesman said.

Iraqi air defense artillery opened fire at the hostile planes and forced them to flee away, the spokesman added.

Neineva Province is within the so-called northern no-fly zone, along with another one in southern Iraq.

U.S. and British planes have been patrolling the two no-fly zones since the 1991 Gulf War with the claimed aim of protecting the Kurds in the north and Shiite Muslims in the south from the persecution of the Iraqi government.

Iraq does not recognize the air exclusion zones and has regularly opened fire at the Western planes enforcing the two no-fly zones.

U.S. President George W. Bush has branded Iraq as part of an "axis of evil" and strongly warned that Iraq may become the next target of the U.S.-led war on terrorism.

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