Iraq: April 19, 2002

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American  warplanes hit air defense facilities in  southern Iraq. Meanwhile, Ukraine and Iraq denied reports that Ukraine sold Iraq high tech radars that could detect stealth aircraft. The report has some credibility because throughout the 1990s, Eastern Europe has been a prime source of gun running and selling high tech weapons to anyone, anywhere as long as the buyer had the cash.

 

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