Iraq Says 1 Killed, 6 Injured in US-British Raids

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Iraq Says 1 Killed, 6 Injured in US-British Raids

one Iraqi citizen was killed and 6 others were injured when warplanes of the United States and Britainbombed southern Iraq on Sunday, an Iraqi military spokesman said onMonday.

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one Iraqi citizen was killed and 6 others were injured when warplanes of the United States and Britainbombed southern Iraq on Sunday, an Iraqi military spokesman said onMonday.

The spokesman told the state-run Iraq TV that at 21:05 local time (1705 GMT) on Sunday, US and British warplanes crossed into Iraqi airspace from their bases in Kuwait and bombed "civil and service" installations in Najaf Province, leading to civilian casualties.

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

Najaf Province has been included inside the so-called southern no-fly zone, along with a similar one in northern Iraq.

U.S. and British warplanes 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 vowed to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with all the tools at his disposal.

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