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Re: I believeFrom: Efrain Ramirez (eramirez@icepr.com)Tue Jul 31 20:51:54 2001
>At Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Zach Newton wrote: > >The rest of you came >from the army of Iraq. > >-- >Zach Newton >Z. B. Newton, III, M.D. >Atlanta/Gyn > Watch out Zach ;-) Pentagon Says Iraq More Aggressive in 2001 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baghdad has become more aggressive this year in its determined efforts to shoot down a U.S. or British warplane patrolling ``no fly zones'' over southern and northern Iraq, a Pentagon (news - web sites) spokesman said on Tuesday. ``They have shown over the course of all of calendar year 2001 a considerably more aggressively stance in trying to bring down a coalition aircraft,'' Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. Craig Quigley said at a regular media briefing. The United States has said Iraq came close to hitting an American U-2 spy plane flying over the southern no-fly zone last week. Baghdad has denied firing at the plane, saying U.S. officials wanted a pretext for a military attack on Iraq. The volume of Iraqi firing at Western patrol planes increased this year from the previous year, Quigley said. ``It is very clear that he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)) is very focused and determined to try to bring down a coalition aircraft,'' he said. In southern Iraq, there were 370 ``provocations'' by the Iraqi military so far this year, compared with 221 in all of 2000, Quigley said. Provocations in northern Iraq totaled 62 so far this year, compared with 145 last year, he said. Provocations included firing of anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles, he said. U.S. response policy was unchanged at ``reserving the right to strike targets that pose threats to our air crew at a time and a location and a manner of our choosing,'' Quigley said. Western coalition aircraft in southern Iraq conducted 19 days of strikes against Iraqi targets this year, compared with 32 days in all of 2000, he said. In northern Iraq, Western air strikes occurred on 7 days so far this year, compared with 48 days last year, Quigley said. U.S. and British warplanes have patrolled no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), when Iraqi troops were ousted from Kuwait by a U.S.-led coalition. Iraq was banned from using all aircraft in the zones set up by Western powers to protect minority Kurds and Shiites from attack by Saddam's forces.
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