U.S. Planes Bomb Another Radar Site
From Times Wire Reports
For the second time in less than a week, U.S. warplanes bombed a radar site in southern Iraq in an attempt to disable the nation’s increasingly effective air defenses, the Pentagon said.
Tuesday’s strike by Air Force F-16s was much smaller than an attack by British and American planes against three sites Friday, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
Tuesday’s strike targeted only one site, a fire-control radar that helps Iraq guide its missiles. It is located near Nasiriyah, about 170 miles southeast of Baghdad.
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