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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
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Sbokesman Navy Capt. Michael
lurleday said U.S. officials were
till assessing the site damage.”
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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.
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In al-Jumhuriya, four homes
'ere completely destroyed and
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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.
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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.
Information Minister Humam
Abdel-Khaliq claimed that the
Arab foreign ministers had given
the United States and Britain “an
Arab green card” to attack Iraq.
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