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Wednesday, March 21, 2001, updated at 08:12(GMT+8)
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US, British Planes Drop Incendiary Bombs in Northern Iraq: Spokesman

US and British warplanes dropped incendiary bombs in northern Iraq on Tuesday, said an Iraqi military spokesman.

In a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency, the spokesman said that at 12:25 local time (0925 GMT), the US and British jets made a total of 14 armed sorties over Iraq's three northern provinces of Dohuk, Neiveva and Erbil.

They dropped incendiary bombs in the Ain Zallah region of Neiveva province, the spokesman said, without mentioning whether there were any casualties or property damage.

The planes were challenged by the Iraqi air defense artillery and were forced to flee back to their air bases in Turkey, the spokesman added.

The incident followed the US-British air attack against Baghdad on February 16. That attack was the first major military operation outside the two no-fly zones since December 1998, when the US and Britain jointly launched air strikes against Iraq.

The northern no-fly zone, which covers the provinces of Dohuk, Neiveva and Erbil, was set up by the US-led Western allies in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War with the claimed aim of protecting the Kurds in northern Iraq from the forces of President Saddam Hussein.

A similar air exclusion zone was declared by the US and Britain over southern Iraq with the alleged aim of protecting the Shiite Muslims in the region.

Iraq does not recognize the zones, which are not authorized by any United Nations resolutions, and has regularly fired at US and British aircraft patrolling them.







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US and British warplanes dropped incendiary bombs in northern Iraq on Tuesday, said an Iraqi military spokesman.

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