London - Britain said yesterday its warplanes had struck a base close to Baghdad where Iraq was hiding remotely-piloted aircraft designed to deliver chemical and biological weapons against its neighbours.
The Defence Ministry released film of a precision-guided bomb from a Royal Air Force Tornado GR1 destroying a hangar housing the planes at Talil air base southeast of the Iraqi capital.
The Defence Secretary, Mr George Robertson, said the pilotless planes could be equipped with crop spraying devices and used to deliver deadly anthrax spores against Iraq's neighbours.