Monday, 3. March 2003
Topic: - on March 3, 2003 at 10:39:14 AM CET
Allies bomb key Iraqi targets
· 'Undeclared war' enters new phase · Missile systems hit · Rocket launchers destroyed
Britain and the United States have all but fired the first shots of the second Gulf war by dramatically extending the range of targets in the "no-fly zones" over Iraq to soften up the country for an allied ground invasion.
As Baghdad threatened to stop destroying its Samoud 2 missiles if the US presses ahead with its invasion plans, allied pilots have attacked surface-to-surface missile systems and are understood to have hit multiple-launch rockets.
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