US warplanes used precision-guided weapons against a surface-to-air missile site in southern Iraq, US military officials said today.
A statement by the U.S. Central Command, which oversees US forces in the Gulf, said the attack yesterday was in response to recent Iraqi violations of United Nations Security Council resolutions, but gave no specific reason for the strike.
It said aircraft in the US-led coalition, which has been reduced to just US and British planes, launched the attack at 9.15 p.m. local time (6.15 p.m. Irish time) and all planes returned safely to their bases.
In Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman, quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency INA, said hostile planes flew over the province of Basra attacking civilian and service installations. No casualties were reported.
Reuters