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Monday, February 19, 2001, updated at 07:59(GMT+8)
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Saddam Meets Top Military Officers on Improving Air Defenses

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Sunday met his top military officials and discussed the means to improve Iraq's air defense systems, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

Saddam met Military Industry Minister Abdul Tawwab aL-Mulla and Air Defense Commander Shahin Yassin Mohammad, the INA said, giving no details.

The meeting was held after the United States and Britain launched air raids on the southern outskirts of Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday evening.

Iraq claimed two civilians were killed and 20 others wounded in the air strike, the first attack on targets north of the 33rd parallel, the upper limit of the southern no-fly zone.

US and British warplanes have been patrolling the air exclusion zone and a similar no-fly zone in the northern Iraq, with the claimed aim of protecting the Kurds in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from the persecution of the Iraqi government.

Iraq has vowed to take military measures to avenge the air strikes.







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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Sunday met his top military officials and discussed the means to improve Iraq's air defense systems, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

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