US warns Iraq after plane is fired on in no-fly zone
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US jets dropped cluster bombs on the position in retaliation, but it was not clear whether the bombs had hit the Iraqi batteries, the Pentagon said.
The US aircraft - three F-16s and an F-4G - were conducting what was described as a routine monitoring mission within the no-fly area north of the 36th parallel at the time of the incident.
In Baghdad, officials denied that Iraqi anti-aircraft batteries had opened fire on the US aircraft. But they said that two unidentified planes had bombed a military compound near Saddam Dam, north of Mosul, and injured an Iraqi soldier.
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