US Warplanes Bomb Southern Iraq: ReportUS warplanes on March 30 bombed an anti-aircraft artillery site in southern Iraq, a TV report said, but it did not mention if there was any casualty.The report said that US jets bombed installations in the southern city of Samawa, some 200 kilometers south of the Baghdad. Samawa is located inside Iraq's southern no-fly zone, which was set up by the US-led Western allies in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War with a claim to protect the Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq. A similar air exclusion zone was also imposed over northern Iraq to protect the Kurdish population there. The latest air raids followed military strikes by the US and Britain against the Iraqi capital on February 16, the first military action by the two Western allies against Iraqi targets outside of the no-fly zones in more than two years. Two civilians were killed and 20 others injured in the air strikes. |
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