Iraq Fires at U.S. Plane Over Kuwait
July 20 -- Iraqi forces fired a surface-to-air missile at a U.S. Navy aircraft over Kuwait, the first such incident since the Gulf War, a Pentagon official said today.
The information is "very sketchy," the official said.
The missile missed, the U.S. aircraft was not damaged, no one was hurt, and no aircraft are missing, he said.
The plane, a Navy E-2C surveillance aircraft, was monitoring a "no-fly zone" in Iraq patrolled by the United States since the 1991 Gulf War.
U.S. aircraft are regularly fired upon when they fly over Iraqi airspace during patrols, usually prompting a retaliatory response from the United States against Iraqi air defenses. However, this is the first time a U.S. plane has been targeted while flying above Kuwait since the end of the war.
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