DATE=4/4/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-247628
TITLE=IRAQ-ATTACK-SUNDAY - S
BYLINE=JIM RANDLE
DATELINE=PENTAGON
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  U-S MILITARY OFFICIALS SAY ALLIED AIRCRAFT BOMBED SIX 
IRAQI TARGETS SUNDAY, AFTER IRAQI PLANES ENTERED FLIGHT EXCLUSION
ZONES IMPOSED BY WESTERN POWERS.  V-O-A'S JIM RANDLE REPORTS FROM
THE PENTAGON, WHERE OFFICIALS SAY ALL THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN 
PLANES RETURNED SAFELY TO THEIR BASES.

TEXT: JETS FROM THE U-S NAVY AND THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN AIR 
FORCES STRUCK TWO IRAQI SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILE SITES AND FOUR 
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES IN TWO WAVES OF ATTACKS SUNDAY.

OFFICIALS IN BAGHDAD SAY THE ALLIED AIRCRAFT TOOK OFF FROM SAUDI 
ARABIA AND INJURED AT LEAST ONE PERSON.  U-S OFFICIALS SAY THEY 
ATTACKED AFTER AT LEAST THREE IRAQI PLANES ENTERED THE SOUTHERN 
NO FLY ZONE.   

AFTER THE 1991 GULF WAR, WESTERN POWERS BANNED IRAQI AIR CRAFT 
FROM ABOUT 60 PER CENT OF THE COUNTRY'S AIR SPACE TO PROTECT 
REBELLIOUS SHI'ITE MUSLIMS AND KURDS FROM IRAQI AIR ATTACKS. 

EARLY THIS YEAR, IRAQI AIR DEFENSES CLASHED ALMOST DAILY WITH 
ALLIED PLANES, BUT PAUSED AS TENSIONS GREW IN KOSOVO. (SIGNED).

NEB/JR/JO 

04-Apr-99 6:43 PM EDT (2243 UTC)
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