Two persons killed in new American raids against Iraq

An Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad said that two Iraqi citizens were killed and a third was wounded as a result of raids launched by American and British warplanes against civilian firms to the south of Iraq on Wednesday.

The spokesman added that several American and British warplanes formations backed by AWACS plane carried out armed sorties over areas in the provinces of al-Basra, Zee Qar, al-Muthanna, al-Najaf, Dahouk, Arbiel and Ninoa, noting that the raiding planes bombarded services and civilian targets in al-Basra province and this resulted in killing two and wounding another.