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标 题: Saddam Sacks Commander of Air Defenses
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月30日11:16:55 星期天), 站内信件
Saddam Sacks Commander of Air Defenses
Sunday March 30, 2003 4:10 AM
LONDON (AP) - Saddam Hussein has fired his commander of air defenses as U.S.
-led forces claimed control of 95 percent of Iraq's sky, the British governm
ent said Saturday.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said Saddam had sacked his co
usin, Musahim Saab al-Tikriti, and replaced him with Gen. Shahin Yasin Muham
mad al-Tikriti.
The spokesman also said new, unspecified intelligence indicated that U.S. an
d British bombing may not have been to blame for explosions in two marketpla
ces in Baghdad this week.
He stopped short, however, of saying that Iraqi missiles were responsible fo
r the explosions, which reportedly killed scores of civilians.
According to Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, 58 people wer
e killed - and many others wounded - in the explosion at the Al-Nasr market
Friday evening. Iraqi officials have also blamed U.S. forces for an explosio
n at another market that killed 14 people on Wednesday.
The Blair spokesman, whose briefings to reporters are by tradition on condit
ion of anonymity, said many Iraqi surface-to-air missiles ``have been malfun
ctioning and many have failed to hit their targets and have fallen back onto
Baghdad before exploding.''
He said the Iraqi regime had ordered civil defense workers to remove Iraqi m
issile fragments which fell on residential areas before Western journalists
arrived on the scene.
``We are not saying definitively that these explosions were caused by Iraqi
missiles. But people should approach this with due skepticism,'' he added.
The U.S. Central Command in Qatar, which has denied that coalition forces ta
rget civilian neighborhoods, has said it was looking into the incidents.
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