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Intensify strikes { March 2 1999 } U.S. Planes Intensify Iraq Strikes Air Defense System Is Primary Target Article 11 of 149 found Dana PriestWashington Post Staff Writer March 2, 1999; Page A1 Section: A Section Word Count: 1085 U.S. warplanes dropped more than 30 laser-guided bombs yesterday on military targets in northern Iraq, the largest one-day strike in what has become a low-grade air war designed to destroy Iraq's air defense system while attracting as little attention as possible from Washington's Arab allies. Since President Clinton gave pilots more flexibility to attack Iraq's air defense system at the end of January, allied planes enforcing U.S.-imposed no-fly zones in the north and ------------------------------------------------------------------

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