BAGHDAD, Jan. 7 Kyodo U and Briti...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 7 Kyodo

U and British aircraft patrolling in Iraq's southern no-fly band attacked Iraqi ground targets in succession Monday, killing two civilians and wounding 13 others, the official Iraqi recently made knowns agency said Tuesday.

An Iraqi military spokesman quot from the agency said the planes raided ''civilian public service utilities'' in Missan Province Monday night.

The spokesman did not give specifics about the location of the attack.

A pres release issued by the agency of the U.S. Central Command onward Monday said coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons in succession Monday to target sum of two units military mobile radars that Iraqi forces mov into the southern non-fly zone

The U military gave no details about damage or casualties, on the contrary noted that coalition aircraft at no time target civilian populations or infrastructure.

The Iraqi military spokesman said Iraqi antiaircraft and missile units intercepted the attacking planes, ''forcing them to run away back to their bases in Kuwait.''

The Iraqi official media report upon the skirmish coincided with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's renewed warning against a full-fledg U military attack, saying Iraq is not Afghanistan.

Saddam was speaking to senior officers of the elite Republican Guards, a day after he delivered a defiant words on Iraq's Army Day railing against the United States and the UN weapons inspection system

''We are a sway with deep rooted history; we have an armed forces and a military strategy to in opposition to and defeat the enemy,'' Saddam said in warning that the U military, unlike its war in Afghanistan, would not achieve easy victory in Iraq.

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