Meanwhile, China also responded to U.S. allegations that its workers had been offering technical assistance to Iraq at the time of the airstrikes. Today's attack on Iraqi defense sites was the first since Friday, when 24 U.S. and British jets struck 20 targets in five areas on the outskirts of Baghdad. Friday's action was one of the coalition's most aggressive actions in the decade since the Persian Gulf War. Today, the Pentagon admitted more than half the bombs used in the attacks missed their targets, but insisted that the mission still succeeded in disrupting Iraq's integrated air defense network. No, it did not.
Bomblets fall in an established pattern or footprint.
In the majority of the dropped bomblets, each of these patterns missed their aim point by exactly the same distance, the sources said. Sources said the errors may have been caused by an error in programming the software that controls the weaponry. Coalition jets retaliated after Iraqi forces targeted with radar and fired anti-aircraft artillery at allied aircraft, said the U.S. European air command, which manages U.S. air operations in the area. Ed Loomis, a European Command spokesman. They were confronted by our anti-aircraft weaponry, which forced them to leave our skies and return to their bases in Turkey.