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US, British Warplanes Bomb Southern Iraq

US and British warplanes wounded on Thursday four Iraqi civilians in their latest bombings in southern Iraq, said an Iraqi Air Defence Command spokesman.

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US and British warplanes wounded on Thursday four Iraqi civilians in their latest bombings in southern Iraq, said an Iraqi Air Defence Command spokesman.

At 9:10 a.m. local time (0610 GMT), US and British planes bombed civil and service installations in the southern province of Wasit, wounding four civilians, the spokesman told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Iraq's air defenses fired at the planes and forced them back to their bases in Kuwait, the spokesman added.

Wasit 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 the persecution of the Iraqi government.

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

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