US, Britain attack southern Iraq sites

Originally published October 11, 1999

The US Central Command said today that US and British jets attacked "three Iraqi military radar sites and an Iraqi military communications site near Al Kut and An Nasiriyah" in the southern Iraq "no-fly zone." It added that the strikes came "in response to recent incidents of Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery fire directed at coalition aircraft."

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