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Quiet war { March 7 1999 } Over Iraq, U.S. Fights A Quiet War Pentagon Plays Down Scope of Operations Article 10 of 149 found Dana Priest Howard SchneiderWashington Post Staff Writers March 7, 1999; Page A1 Section: A Section Word Count: 2869 High above the featureless landscape of southern Iraq, a pilot from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson peered out of the cockpit of his F/A-18 strike plane recently and saw the telltale puff of smoke from the launch of an Iraqi surface-to-air missile streaking toward his jet. The pilot, a lieutenant commander in Vinson's "Mighty Shrikes" squadron, did not defend himself with laser-guided bombs or other munitions. Instead, he calmly banked the aircraft away from the ------------------------------------------------------------------

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