Baghdad: US raids continue

Originally published August 31, 1999

An Iraqi military spokesman announced that the Iraqi missiles were fired yesterday on US and British fighters that circled high in southern Iraq.

The Iraqi official news agency quoted the spokesman yesterday as saying that the US and British planes fired while flying over Basra, Mithan, El-Mathna, Zikar before being exposed to the missiles' fire.

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