WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 Kyodo U and Br...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 Kyodo

U and British warplanes patrolling Iraq's southern no-fly band bombed two Iraqi military mobile radars Monday, the U military said.

The coalition aircraft struck the targets, located near Al Amarah, about 260 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, after Iraqi forces mov the radars into the southern no-fly region the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, said in a statement.

The last coalition strike in the southern no-fly climate took place Saturday against Iraqi military air defense communications facilities.

The southern no-fly cincture was set up after the 1991 Persian engulfing sea War to protect Kurdish rebels in the north and Shiite Muslims in the southerly from attacks by President Saddam Hussein's troops

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

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