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August 13, 1999 With Little Notice, U.S. Planes Have Been Striking Iraq All Year Related Articles Issue in Depth: Attack on Iraq By STEVEN LEE MYERS ASHINGTON -- It is the year's other war. While the nation's attention has focused on Kosovo, American warplanes have quietly, methodically and with virtually no public discussion been attacking Iraq. Over the past eight months, American and British pilots have fired more than 1,100 missiles against 359 targets. That is more than triple the targets attacked in four furious days of strikes in December that followed Iraq's expulsion of U.N. weapons inspectors, an...

There is nothing more sickening than attempting to justify the war on Iraq on supposedly humanitarian grounds, as in freeing the Iraqi people from the dictator Saddam Hussein. "Shouldn't human rights be the best cause for starting a war?" asked the Wall Street Journal on Dec. 8. This is the vilest form of propaganda imaginable, not only because it is a corruption of basic human morality, but also because it is so patently false on its face. Even if it were somehow morally excusable to kill thousands of innocent people in order to free them from an alleged dictator, the...

— BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces fired on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq Tuesday, an Iraqi military spokesman said. There was no immediate comment from Washington or London. The incidents happened as U.N. arms inspectors prepared to begin their first searches in four years Wednesday for illicit nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The United States has said that Iraqi fire on its jets over the "no fly" zones may constitute a breach of this month's U.N. resolution 1441, under which Iraq must cooperate with the inspections or face the threat of war. Other...

I have been trying to find some information on the no fly zones supposedly authorized by the UN SC resolution 688. My visit to the UN website says that resolution 688 is 404 not found. I've done a google search that gives me the verbiage of the resolution and it appears that is peaks of humanitarian aid and for member states to use its resources to assist in helping the people of Iraq being oppressed by Saddam (my translation). I was told we were there illegally but I don't believe it. However, I cannot find what gives us permission by...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  Allied aircraft struck have struck Iraqi air defense facilities again, defense officials said.</p> <p>The latest strike by precision-guided weapons was on facilities near Al Amarah about 170 miles southeast of Baghdad at approximately 2:15 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, according to Central Command in Florida.</p>

The U.S and British warplanes launch a new aggression over Iraqi civil areas Baghdad, Sept. 19, INA The U.S. and British warplanes violated Iraq’s airspace in a desperate bid to impair solid will of Iraqis and undermine their sovereignty and territorial integrity. A spokesman for the air defence command told INA that on Wednesday the U.S. and British warplanes violated Iraq‘s airspace coming from their bases in Kuwait backed by an AWACS inside their bases in Saudi Arabia. He added that the enemy ravens carried out 41 armed sorties and patrolled civil areas in Artawi, Al- Jiliba, As-Selman, Al- Nasiriya,...

Today: July 13, 2002 at 10:45:11 PDT Iraqis Hurt in U.S.-British Air Raids ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq- Seven Iraqi civilians were injured in U.S. and British air raids in southern Iraq on Saturday, a military spokesman said. The unidentified spokesman said allied warplanes bombed "civil and service installations" in Dhi Qar province, 211 miles south of Baghdad, the official Iraqi News Agency reported. No U.S. or British comment was immediately available. The Iraqi spokesman said seven civilians were wounded, but did not elaborate on the extent of their injuries. The warplanes left Iraqi skies after being challenged by Iraq's "courageous...