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Warships and attack planes carry electronic ID systems, like the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) radio transponders that are standard equipment on military and civilian aircraft. A missile battery equipped with IFF can "interrogate" an aircraft by beaming a radio signal at it and listening to the answering squawk. But the system is not foolproof. In the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Arab batteries fired 2,100 antiaircraft missiles and destroyed 85 aircraft -- 45 of them Arab, 40 Israeli...
...Iraq claimed that hundreds of civilian deaths resulted from a U.S. air strike on a bunker that the Pentagon maintains was a military command center...
...Arab demonstrators gathered in Amman, Jordan, to protest the alleged civilian deaths, waving black flags of mourning and shouting "Death to America...
...Allied warplanes destroyed what the U.S. called a military command center. Iraq claims it was an underground shelter and reports 500 civilian casualties...
...Monday night meeting, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution showing its support for U.S. troops fighting in the Persian Gulf and stating that it "hopes for rapid Allied success in fulfilling the United Nations' mandate with a minimum of civilian, American and Allied casualties...