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US, British Warplanes Bomb Southern Iraq

US and British warplanes on Saturday bombed southern Iraq, the second of its kind in a week, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

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US and British warplanes on Saturday bombed southern Iraq, the second of its kind in a week, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

At 11 a.m. local time (0700 GMT), US and British warplanes bombed civilian and services facilities in the southern province of Dhi Qar, and then were forced back to their bases in Kuwait by Iraqi anti-aircraft fires, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) quoted the spokesman as saying.

But the spokesman did not mention any casualties or damages.

Dhi Qar is within the so-called southern no-fly zone, parallel to another one in northern Iraq.

Four Iraqi civilians were injured in similar bombings late Wednesday in the southern provinces of Wassit and Misan.

US and British warplanes have been patrolling the two no-fly zones since the 1991 Gulf War with a claimed aim of protecting the Kurds in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south from persecution of the Iraqi government.

Iraq said more than 1,400 Iraqis have been killed and over 1400 others injured by the US and British bombings since the end of the Gulf War.

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