[PEN-L:9752] US planes attack Iraq for fifth day running

["Frank Durgin" <fdurgin1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   From  Electronic Telegraph < http://www.telegraph.co.uk > july 31, 1999


US planes attack Iraq for fifth day running

                                         AMERICAN war planes bombed
anti-aircraft artillery sites
                                         in Iraq's northern "no-fly" zone
for the fifth day running
                                         yesterday after coming under fire
during a routine patrol.

                                         The US European Command, based in
Stuttgart, Germany,
                                         said F-15 and F-16 fighter jets,
acting in "self-defence",
                                         bombed sites north and north-west
of Mosul, Iraq's second
                                         city. All the aircraft returned
safely to the Incirlik air base
                                         in south-eastern Turkey after the
strike, and the military
                                         was assessing damage to Iraqi
forces, the statement added.

                                         Incirlik is home to American and
British aircraft which
                                         patrol the northern no-fly zone
imposed on Iraq after the
                                         1991 Gulf war to protect the
region's Kurdish population.

                                         28 July 1999: American planes hit
Iraqi sites
                                         28 July 1999: Iraq claims 17
civilians killed in US strike