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  • Key Iraqi site reported wrecked

    08/27/2002 7:20:21 AM PDT · by maquiladora · 69 replies · 674+ views
    AP Wire ^ | Aug. 27, 2002
    CAIRO, Egypt - A U.S.-British air raid in southern Iraq this weekend destroyed a major military surveillance site that monitors American troops in the Persian Gulf, witnesses said Tuesday. The Iraqi military said the allied warplanes on Sunday bombed areas in Basra province, 330 miles south of Baghdad, killing eight civilians and wounding nine others. The U.S. Central Command in Florida said coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons to strike two air defense radar systems near Basra "in response to recent Iraqi hostile acts against coalition aircraft monitoring the southern no-fly zone." The witnesses, Iraqis who said they were at the...