4 Hurt in U.S. Air Attack on South, Baghdad Says

IRAQ

Iraq said four people were wounded when U.S. warplanes attacked civilian targets, while Washington said it had launched a raid after Western jets policing the country’s southern “no-fly” zone were threatened.

Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold told a news briefing at the Pentagon that the U.S. planes had used precision-guided weapons to attack an aircraft-directional finding site.

An Iraqi military spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency, “The enemy attacked civilian and service installations in Muthanna province, wounding four people.”