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Enemy Warplanes-Sorties


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Baghdad: The Anglo-U.S. warplanes launched on Saturday 89-armed sorties coming from Kuwait territory, aided by awacs and e-2c planes.

A spokesman for the air defence command told Ina that the evil arplanes flew over civil areas in the southern parts of the country, and bombed service institutions in Basra province.

This brought the total number of sorties carried out by the enemy ravens coming from bases in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and turkey over the period dec. 17, 1998-Feb. 15, 2003 to 48,817, the spokesman said.


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