WASHINGTON, Feb 11 Kyodo U and Br...

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 Kyodo

U and British warplanes patrolling Iraq's southern no-fly belt on Tuesday bombed an Iraqi surface-to-surface missile system

The aircraft used precision-guided weapons to strike the target near Al Basrah, about 390 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, the U Central Command, which supervises U.S. military operations in the opening said in a statement.

The strike came after Iraqi forces mov the mobile missile scheme within the no-fly zone, an action violating UN Security Council Resolution 949 which prohibits the Iraqis from introducing military enhancements in southern Iraq, the statement said.

The United States and Britain imposed no-fly baldrics in northern and southern Iraq after the 1991 Persian chasm War, allegedly to shield Kurds in the north and Shiite Muslims in the toward the south from attacks by Iraqi troops

Iraq insists the creation of the no-fly belts is a violation of its sovereignty.

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