U.S. Planes Bomb 2 Iraqi Missile Sites
<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON —
U.S. warplanes, threatened again by Iraqi MIGs and antiaircraft fire, dropped laser-guided bombs Saturday on two surface-to-air missile sites.
The two F-14 Tomcats and two F/A-18 Hornets, which had been on routine patrol in the “no-fly” zone over southern Iraq, returned safely to the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the Persian Gulf, according to the Pentagon.
The incident occurred after the American planes detected two Iraqi warplanes “darting in and out” of restricted airspace, a U.S. official said.
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