THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
The Washington Post
January 15, 2003

U.S. Escalates Illegal Airstrikes

by Vernon Loeb

U.S. and British warplanes have bombed more than 80 targets in Iraq's southern "no-fly" zone over the past five months, conducting an escalating air war even as U.N. weapons inspections proceed and diplomats look for ways to head off a full-scale war.

. . . The United Nations does not recognize the no-fly zones or the U.S. assertion that it is enforcing U.N. resolutions.

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