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Article: IRAQ TARGETS NO-FLY ZONES UNITED STATES: PILOTS WILL CONTINUE TO PATROL THE AIRSPACE AND ACT IN SELF-DEFENSE.(FRONT)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- December 27, 1998
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Byline: LOUIS MEIXLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Iraq will no longer allow U.S. and British warplanes to patrol the no-fly zones imposed after the Persian Gulf War, and will fire on the jets if they enter the country's airspace, Iraq's vice president said Saturday.
``We say frankly now that any violation of Iraqi airspace will be met by Iraqi fire,'' Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told Qatar's Al-Jazeera television.
The United States, Britain and France set up the no-fly zones in 1991-92 to halt Iraqi air attacks against Kurdish rebels in the north and Shiite Muslim rebels in the south.
Iraq has never recognized the zones ...