Warplanes attack Basra Airport claims Iraq

Iraqi claimed tonight that British and US warplanes attacked Basra International Airport today and on Tuesday night.

The Iraqi News Agency reported that aircraft attacked civilian and military installations at Anbar, Basra and Kut.

Fighter planes from the US aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk bombed at least two targets in southern Iraq today.

Lieutenant Nicole Kratzer, a spokeswoman for Carrier Air Wing Five, the airborne strike force aboard the Kitty Hawk, said the targets were “an Iraqi intelligence facility and mobile missile sites.”

“Eight F/A-18 Hornets and two F-14 Tomcats from Carrier Airwing Five conducted response option air strikes against Iraqi targets in south-eastern Iraq,” she told reporters aboard the Kitty Hawk.