U.S. Planes Strike Iraqi Air-Defense Facility
U.S. warplanes bombed Iraqi air-defense facilities on Saturday after coalition aircraft patrolling a "no-fly" zone in the south of the country came under fire, the U.S. military said. :: Iraq fires on coalition aircraft and the Allies respond using precision-guided weapons to take out the air defense facilities that targeted the planes. Sweet. Incidentally, my alternative headline for this would be Iraq Fires on Coalition Patrol. This places the emphasis on Iraq as the initiator of the attack rather than the Allied response after the fact. The actual headline can be interpreted in some quarters as another example of hegemonic bullying of the poor Iraqi underdog. I wonder why the news media has such difficulty with cause and effect? At any rate, this Reuters report is submitted for your war (Matthew 24:6) and Iraq destroyed (Jeremiah 51:29&37) files.