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Article: Aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln rejoins air patrols over Iraq
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 11, 2003
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Dateline: ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, back in the Persian Gulf
on an extended tour, was set to resume sending air patrols over Iraq.
The nuclear-powered "Abe" is a floating airfield for the Navy's most
modern fighter jets, the F-18E Super Hornet, and other fighters, which
screamed off the deck Tuesday as they were catapulted to the end of
the carriers.
However, weather limited the flights to short training and qualifying
missions, rather than the planned patrols of the southern no-fly zone.
The exclusion zone was established after the 1991 Gulf War to protect
Iraqi Shiites from Saddam ...