No-fly zone clashes renewed

The US European Command said today that Iraqi anti-aircraft guns west of Bashiqah fired on planes enforcing the northern Iraq "no-fly zone." It added that the aircraft "responded to the Iraqi attacks by dropping ordnance on elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system."

Yesterday, the US Central Command said that US and British jets "used precision-guided munitions to strike Iraqi military anti-aircraft artillery batteries, a surface-to-air missile site and radar sites in southern Iraq" after being fired on by Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery on Monday and yesterday.