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Apr. 19, 1993: Trouble for Sure
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 18
WORLD
Trouble for Sure
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<p>Iraq opens fire on U.S. aircraft patrolling the no-fly zone
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<p> The four American fighter jets were on a routine monitoring
flight over northern Iraq when ground radar locked on--a
clear sign of trouble. The next message was entirely
unambiguous: several rounds of artillery fire from an Iraqi
emplacement near the Saddam Dam. Though they were not hit, the
American pilots followed standing orders and answered in kind,
dropping four cluster bombs on the firing battery. The fighters,
three F-16s and one F-4G, then returned to Incirlik air base in
Turkey.
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<p> It was the first exchange of hostile fire over the no-fly
zone, imposed two years ago by U.S.-led allies to protect Iraq's
Kurds, since Iraq fired on two French Mirage reconnaissance
planes on Feb. 3. Why the sudden new outburst? U.S. officials
professed to see no special reason, speculating that Saddam
Hussein was simply beginning a new round in his strategy of
"cheat and retreat." Iraq claimed that one of its soldiers was
wounded in the incident but denied initiating it. A Foreign
Ministry spokesman called the U.S. response "aggressive and
provocative behavior."
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