Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since then, U.S. warplanes have attacked Iraqi positions in northern Iraq on 89 days--about one of every two days they have flown. Just last week jets bombed missile sites around Mosul for three days. According to documents reviewed by TIME, on some days the Air Force has dropped more than 30 bombs and missiles on as many as half a dozen Iraqi targets. Two months ago, the war ratcheted up when U.S. warplanes attacked an air-defense center south of Mosul and later discovered they had caused "serious destruction" to a 500-man unit hidden there, according...
...kept his gun holstered for a little more than a week after U.S. warplanes pounded his military sites, but now Saddam Hussein is firing back--and beginning the next round of his war with Washington. One of his mobile surface-to-air missile batteries near the northern town of Mosul launched three SAMs at U.S. jet fighters patrolling the no-fly zone last week. Two days later, more SAMs were launched from the Talil air base in southern Iraq against British and U.S. warplanes. Both times the pilots under attack jinked their planes in evasive maneuvers, avoiding the missiles. Then...
...live rounds Monday came in Iraq's northern no-fly zone as U.S. planes hit an Iraqi air defense battery after being fired upon. Iraq's government said four soldiers were killed after U.S. bombs made at least two direct hits on the emplacement near the city of Mosul. Meanwhile, Iraq was shifting its position on the U.N.'s oil-for-food program. One day after causing a minor stir by threatening to expell some 400 workers who monitor the program, Iraq's trade minister called a press conference to say they could stay after all -- at least...
...intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow Iraq to build short-range rockets with a range under 93 miles, a U.N. expert notes "the same technology used to make a missile that flies 93 miles can be used on one that flies...
...Iraqi air-defense battery near the city of Mosul fired two surface-to-air missiles at a pair of U.S. jets patrolling the U.N.-imposed "no-fly zone" over northern Iraq. Though the attackers missed their targets, the U.S. response was swift and unusually aggressive. After fighter-bombers dropped cluster bombs on the antiaircraft site, laser-guided bombs were directed at it by another pair of U.S. planes...