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He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
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.
This January, the spiky hair and bulging eyes of Bart Simpson mysteriously found their way into a photograph of soldiers patrolling a street in Hebron that accompanied a New York Times Magazine essay by Palestinian intellectual Edward Said.
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.
"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.