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August 16, 2000
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- U.S. jets bombed air defense sites in northern Iraq on Tuesday after Iraqi gunners opened fire on the aircraft, the U.S. military said.U.S. warplanes were fired on from sites northeast of Mosul, 250 miles north of the capital Baghdad, the U.S. European Command said. Iraq claimed the planes attacked civilian targets. "The warplanes bombed on our service and civil properties. Our heroic missiles confronted the enemy warplanes, forcing them to leave our skies,'' the official Iraqi News Agency quoted a military spokesman as saying. All planes returned safely to Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, U.S. officials said. The United States has been enforcing no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq since the end of the Gulf War in 1991. Iraq regards the zones violations of its territorial sovereignty and has been challenging the patrols since December 1998. |