October 10, 2000
RELEASE NUMBER: 00-10-01
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COALITION AIRCRAFT RESPOND TO IRAQI ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE
MACDILL AFB, FL - In response to Iraqi anti-aircraft fire earlier today, coalition aircraft enforcing the Southern No-Fly-Zone used precision-guided weapons to strike a surface-to-air missile support facility in Southern Iraq at approximately 8:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
All coalition aircraft have returned safely and target battle damage assessment is ongoing.
Since December 1998, there have been over 700 incidents of Iraqi surface-to-air missile firings, anti-aircraft artillery firings and Iraqi aircraft violations of the Southern No-Fly-Zone.
The site was targeted to further degrade Iraq's ability to jeopardize coalition pilots and aircraft enforcing United Nations mandates. The last coalition strike was against an Iraqi military radar site on Sept. 14.
Coalition aircraft never target civilian populations or infrastructure and go to painstaking lengths to avoid injury to civilians and damage to civilian facilities.
10/10/00 10:54:34 AM
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