Iraqi missile nearly downs US spy plane
Iraq-USA, Politics, 7/28/2001

An official at the US state department said on Friday that Iraq tried for the first time on Tuesday to down an American spying plane " U 2" type by a missile.

News reports quoted the source which refused to be identified as saying that the plane saw closely the Iraqi missile while it was in a reconnaissance mission in southern Iraq.

Worthy mentioning that this type of spying planes usually fly at 60,000 feet height ( 20,000 meters) and it is slower that warplanes.

A high ranking official at the US state department said today ( Friday) that Iraq tried last Tuesday for the first time to down a US spying plane by a missile.

This official who asked not to be identified said that this incident needs tightening pressure on the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in being still constitute a threat to the region, as he stated. The Monte Carlo radio reported.

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