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w ORLD J’ag^^Tuesda^Januai^^j^IQQ^ Jnited States attacks southern Iraq killing 11 BASRA, Iraq (AP) — U.S. mis- les slammed into residential igliborhoods in southern Iraq Monday, demolishing sturdy, ne-walled homes as they killed least 11 people, Iraqi officials lid. U.S. officials said its Air Force idfslavy jets fired at air defense stlms in response to “threats by tilaircraft artillery fire’’ and by ur Iraqi warplanes flying south the 33rd parallel in violation of e po-flight ban. Pentagon officials said it was ;ely that U.S. jets targeting the aqi air defense installations mis- red and that at least two missiles ay have resulted in civilian ?atlis in and around the city of asm. Sbokesman Navy Capt. Michael lurleday said U.S. officials were till assessing the site damage.” tie missiles hit five areas of u them Iraq, including the orking-class al-Jumhuriya v^tjP^l^ighborhood on the outskirts of asm, Iraqi officials said. jy rogers Several homes in that neigh- in front oforhood were destroyed, their iofp caved in. Broken dishes and ichen utensils were strewn nong the rubble. Civilians worked late into the ghi to clean the debris from the orhing strike. Ahmed Ibrahim Hamash, the ivernor of Basra, said two air- aft fired five missiles that killed people and injuring 59. The missiles struck civilian ar- is in or near Basra, as well as a te near the airport and another ear the Rumeilah oil fields. An engineer at the oil field was ported injured in the attacks. Jpl es to Iraqi officials took reporters to fexas residr BTU, said lif i af the needi( xas. te al-Jumhouri hospital, one of le city’s two main hospitals. Several injured children and omen were at the hospital. Iraqi fficials said they had been minded in the strikes. Ye have bee r | We will rs. ned custom In al-Jumhuriya, four homes 'ere completely destroyed and xdamaged, including Lufti Swa- di’s house. The blast ripped the front door off the 28-year-old bak er’s home, shattered parts of the walls and scattered the furniture. In the village of. Abu al- Khaseeb, four houses were de stroyed and another four dam aged. Iraqi officials were still assessing damage in the other civilian area that was struck. Hamash said there were no military installations in the areas that were hit. “There is not even a police sta- nostrils. She was about to go to school to take an exam when the missile struck, her sister Zeinab, 25, said. “It began with a big bang,” said Zeinab Ali, who was slightly injured with cuts and bruises. “I could see my house coming down on us. There was dust all over.” Marwa suffered multiple wounds to the scalp and a deep knee injury. Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz condemned the attack and U.S. missiles strike near Basra Iraqi officials reported a U.S. missile hit the al-Jumhuriya neighborhood of Basra on Monday morning. Another strike was reported shortly after at the village of Abu al-Khaseeb near Basra, the Basra airport and the North Rumeilah oil field. IRAN Howr al Hammar North Rumeilah oil field Hamrin^i Basra International Airport Shalbah • al-Jumhuriya * • Maqal s* Basra ^ Abu al-Khaseeb AP/Wm. J. Gastello tion there, let alone a military in stallation,” he said. “The United States claims to be a humanitari an nation but they are enemies of that concept.” At the al-Jumhouri hospital in Basra, Marwa Ali, 6, lay on a hos pital bed swathed in a pink blanket. Dried blood was caked on her said the United States and its al lies would be held responsible. His remarks were reported by the official Iraqi News Agency. Basra, 350 miles south of Bagh dad, is within the southern “no- fly” zone that the United States and its allies set up after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Shiite Mus lims who rose up against the gov ernment of Iraqi President Sad dam Hussein. In the northern no-fly zone Monday, U.S. aircraft attacked three separate Iraqi anti-aircraft batteries, U.S. officials said. They said the aircraft fired mis siles and dropped bombs after Iraq targeted or fired on the war planes. The Vatican condemned the bombing raids, saying Monday in a statement from Mexico City that the military action “confirms once again” Pope John Paul IPs belief that “military measures don’t resolve problems in them selves, rather they aggravate them.” The Vatican has consistently opposed the military actions against Iraq. Hamash, meanwhile, vowed defiance after the attacks. “We will continue to oppose any over-flying of our territory by enemy aircraft,” he said. Iraq has been challenging the no-fly zones with increasing reg ularity since Dec. 1.6-19 airstrikes by the United States and Britain. Those attacks were aimed at punishing Iraq after U.N. weapons inspectors released a re port saying that Baghdad was ob structing their work. The British Defense Ministry said its warplanes were not in volved in the latest attacks. On Sunday, U.S. aircraft fired on two surface-to-air missile sites in separate incidents in the north ern no-fly zone, U.S. officials said. It was a second consecutive day that U.S. warplanes patrolling the no-fly zones opened fire after being targeted. The latest attack comes one day after Arab foreign ministers met in Egypt and refused to con demn last month’s airstrikes. 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