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Wed, Mar 12, 2003

U-2s Pulled From Iraq Job in SNAFU

Stories Don't Match

All U-2 flights over Iraq, for which the US/UN was granted "permission" so recently, have been stopped. Two simultaneous sorties on Tuesday were cut short, as the new policy took effect.

The Pentagon said that somehow two U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance planes were launched at roughly the same time Tuesday, and Iraq was scrambling fighters, and thus the planes were recalled, due to DoD's safety concerns.

UNMOVIC, on the other hand, said that it (the UN) had called for a cessation of U-2 flights, because Iraq was ticked that two flights were in the air at once, when it (Iraq) had given "permission" for just single-plane overflights. The UN, according to its press office, then told the US to get the planes out of there.

Just why U-2 flights have now been suspended indefinitely, is anyone's guess, as is the threat Iraq could have posed to them.

FMI: www.defenselink.mil

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