March 21, 2003
Release Number: 03-03-37
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COALITION FORCES AIR CAMPAIGN BEGINS
SOUTHWEST ASIA - The air campaign of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM launched into high gear shortly before 1:00 p.m. EST, as hundreds of Coalition Force aircraft and cruise missiles targeted select regime leadership and military targets in Baghdad and other various cities.
Military command and control installations, structures and buildings were the targeted sites. Other cities with military sites targeted were the northern towns of Kirkuk, Mosul and Tikrit.
Target battle damage assessment is ongoing.
Coalition aircraft never target civilian populations or infrastructure and go to painstaking lengths to avoid injury to civilians and damage to civilian facilities.
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