US Warplanes Bomb Civil Airport in Southern Iraq Again

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US Warplanes Bomb Civil Airport in Southern Iraq Again

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US warplanes on Sunday attacked a civil airport in southern Iraq for the second time in a week, causing damage to its radar system and the service building, said a spokesman of the Transport and Communications Ministry.

At 00:45 local time (2045 GMT Saturday), US planes bombed the civil airport in the southern city of Basra, destroying its main radar system and damaging the service building, including the departure hall, the official Iraqi News Agency quoted the spokesman as saying.

US and British warplanes attacked the same international airport early Thursday and caused damage to the radar system and the service building as well.

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

US 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 persecution of the Iraqi government.

On Aug. 27, US and British planes fired two missiles on the civil airport in the northern city of Mosul, damaging the traveller's building and the radar system that controlled the take-offs and landings of civil airliners, said a source from the ministry.

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