IRAQ: UNITED NATIONS OFFICIALS INSPECT THE REMNANTS OF WHAT IRAQ CLAIM IS A UNITED STATES MISSILE FIRED ON ITS TERRITORY

Record ID: 337670

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED NATIONS OFFICIALS INSPECT THE REMNANTS OF WHAT IRAQ CLAIM IS A UNITED STATES MISSILE FIRED ON ITS TERRITORY
  • Date: 3rd July 1998
  • Summary: NEAR UMM QASIR, IRAQ (JULY 2, 1998) (RTV) 1. SLV LINE OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF EXTERIOR BUILDING ALLEGEDLY TARGETED BY U.S. PLANES 0.04 2. SLV REMAINS OF MISSILE ON GROUND 0.07 3. SCU MISSILE SHELL, "NO HOLD" WRITTEN ON IT (2 SHOTS) 0.15 4. SCU PART OF MISSILE WITH WRITING "AWB 355/ TCTO 503 CK" 0.20 5. SCU HOLE IN WALL MADE BY MISSILE 0.24 6. SCU MISSILE REMNANTS 0.29 7. SLV CRATER IN GROUND 0.34 8. SCU /CU REMNANTS OF MISSILE (2 SHOTS) 0.42 9. SCU SENIOR ENGINEER AT SITE ZEKI HAMID JASSIM SAYING "IT IS A DEMILITARIZED ZONE AND IT HAS NO MILITARY UNIT NOR ANY KIND OF AMMUNITION WHATEVER." (ARABIC) 0.48 10. MV/CU UNITED NATIONS OFFICER HOLDING PIECE OF MISSILE (2 SHOTS) 0.58 11. SLV UNIKOM LIAISON OFFICE SIGN 1.04 12. LAS U.N. HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD 1.08 13. SCU U.N. MAJOR FRANCES RUGGEN SAYING "AS FAR AS I CAN FEEL IT THERE IS NO ESCALATION OF TENSION INSIDE THE DMZ, WHAT IS OUTSIDE IS NOT OUR MANDATE." (ENGLISH) 1.18 14. LAS IRAQI FLAG FLYING 1.23 15. SLV UNIKOM BUILDING 1.26 16. SLV PICTURE OF IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN OUTSIDE U.N. COMPOUND 1.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th July 1998 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR UMM QASIR, IRAQ
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  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAC9CJMHL2PYJ2XJ4672X2822DG
  • Story Text: United Nations (U.N.) officials have inspected the remnants of what Iraq said was a United States (U.S.) missile fired on its territory.

    Near a water reservoir and its surrounding building the remnants of what appeared to be a missile lay scattered around.

    One cylindrical piece about two metres (six feet) long bore the English message: "No Hold...Item...Weapons".

    Other pieces showed what appeared to be serial numbers.

    A U.S.F-16 warplane fired a missile at a radar site in southern Iraq on Tuesday after Iraqi radar locked onto allied jets flying a routine mission over the Iraqi no-fly zone, U.S.

    military officials said.

    Iraq denied its radar had targeted any of the 10 planes flying the routine mission near the southern port of Basra and said the High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) missile failed to hit any anti-aircraft defences.

    An Iraqi government official said on Tuesday the U.S.

    attack was "an aggression and unjustifiable action" that might lead to a new all-out assault against Iraq.

    A senior engineer at the site, Zeki Hamid Jassim, said the area was a demilitarised zone and it "had no military unit nor any kind of ammunition." U.N.Major Frances Ruggen said "as far as I can feel it there is no escalation of tension inside the DMZ, what is outside is not our mandate." Iraq has been banned from using all aircraft, including helicopters, in the air exclusion zones.


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