The U.S. military uses the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey as a base of operations for enforcing the northern no-fly zone. In the latest clashes, Air Force and Marine Corps aircraft patrolling the northern zone on Tuesday attacked several Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery sites and an air defense radar installation in self defense. And in the southern zone, Navy jets bombed an Iraqi anti-ship missile site deemed a potential threat to oil shipping off coastal Kuwait. Iraq deployed them in recent weeks on the al-Faw peninsula, which juts into the Gulf. Eisenstadt said the no-fly zones, set up after the Gulf War in 1991 and 1992 to protect rebel Kurd and Shiite Muslim groups, are viewed by the Iraqi military as ''a humiliating violation'' of their nation's sovereignty and as ruinous to their military capabilities.
Soldiers are soldiers.
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