One plane was hit in the Iraqi airspace
Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/16/2001

An Iraqi military spokesman has announced that one of the British and American planes which were raiding north Iraq was hit.

The spokesman added that the Iraqi missiles and anti aircraft means intercepted the planes which were carrying armed sorties over the Iraqi provinces of Dahouk, Irbeil and Ninoa and that evidences indicate that one of the planes was hit while other planes had withdrawn.

He continued that also the Iraqi anti- aircraft missiles intercepted the American and British planes which carried out armed sorties over areas in the provinces of Zee Qar, al-Muthanna and al-Najaf in Southern Iraq.

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