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U.S. officials indicate that pilots patrolling the no-fly zones deliberately pass over predetermined targets, obviously in the hope that the Iraqis will provoke them.
Only the Los Angeles Times fronts the situation in the Gulf: the lead describes Iraqi attempts to lure American planes into missile range and threats to fire on planes patrolling the no-fly zone.
U.S. and Iraqi forces exchanged fire again . For the second time since the U.S. bombing campaign two weeks ago, Iraqi anti-aircraft outposts tried to shoot down U.S. and British planes that were patrolling "no-fly zones" over Iraq.
"He's provided an opportunity for us to pick apart his military machine," one U.S. official explained to the Los Angeles Times . In January alone, allied aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones dropped some 60 bombs and missiles on Saddam's air defenses, scoring more hits than they achieved in December's four day campaign.
Update on the bombing of Yugoslavia : 1) Serbian forces captured three U.S. soldiers who were patrolling the Macedonian-Serbian border.