- A US military plane taking off from Baghdad airport came
under attack from two surface-to-air missiles, it has emerged.
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- The heat-seeking missiles had no chance of hitting the
C-141 transport plane, which was flying at 4,000 metres (14,000 feet) at
the time, said British military officials.
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- The incident, in the early hours of Saturday, came just
hours before American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left the airport
at the end of a three-day visit to Iraq.
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- This is not the first time planes using the airport have
been targeted. A missile was fired at a transport plane last week, missing
it by one kilometre.
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- © BBC MMIII
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/3087442.stm
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