rtokens: " We are in close touch with all our allies , " said the Foreign Office spokesman .
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tokens: The area is patrolled by U.S. , French and British planes .
ltokens: Arbil lies within the so-called safe haven set up at the end of the 1991 Gulf War on the suggestion of British Prime Minister John Major to protect Iraqi Kurds from attack by the Iraqi military .