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Iraq civilians Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www10.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/06/26/iraq.attack/index.html http://www10.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/06/26/iraq.attack/index.html Iraq: Coalition planes hit civilian targets; U.S. denies it BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq said on Tuesday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had struck at ''our civilian and service centers in the province of Basra,'' killing three Iraqis -- an accusation denied by the United States. A spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Florida, which directs the aircraft that enforce the southern no-fly zone in Iraq, acknowledged that U.S. planes had conducted a strike against Basra on Monday, but said they had attacked an anti-aircraft artillery site and not a civilian target. ''The attack led to the martyrdom of three citizens,'' an Iraqi Air Defense spokesman told Iraq's state-controlled news agency, INA. "Yesterday we conducted a strike at an Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery site," Lt. Col. Rich Thomas told CNN. "It was in response to Iraqi hostile acts." Last week, Iraq said coalition planes killed at least 22 young Iraqis on June 19 on a soccer field in the northern city of Mosul. In Washington, Pentagon officials said it was probably a malfunctioning Iraqi anti-aircraft missile that killed the young men. That attack was the first strike by Western warplanes in southern Iraq since June 14, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. There have been "more than 900 separate incidents of Iraqi surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery fire directed at coalition aircraft since December 1998, including more than 275 in this calendar year," the statement said. Northern and southern no-fly zones were put in place over Iraq following the 1991 Persian Gulf War as part of an effort to prevent the Baghdad government of President Saddam Hussein from persecuting the minority Shiite Muslims in the south and the Kurdish population in northern Iraq.

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