BAGHDAD, February 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq said on Saturday 1,476
people have been killed and over 1,330 others injured in the U.S.-
British air raids of the two no-fly zones in northern and southern
parts of the country since the 1991 Gulf War.
   In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Anna, Iraqi Foreign
Minister Naji Sabri Ahmed said that in addition to the heavy human
casualties, the U.S. and British bombings have also destroyed "
numerous civil and service installations," the official Iraqi News
Agency (INA) reported.
   Accusing the U.S. and Britain of committing "terrorism" and "
interference in Iraq's internal affairs," the minister urged the U.
N. chief to live up to his responsibility and "demand the
governments of the U.S., Britain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey
to immediately halt their aggressions against Iraq."
   The U.S. and Britain have been using air bases in Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia and Turkey to launch almost daily patrols over the two no-
fly zones, set up in the wake of the Gulf War with the claimed aim
of protecting the Kurds in the north and Shiite Muslims in the
south from the persecution of the Iraqi regime.
   The U.S. and Britain argue that they unleash attacks on military
targets when they are challenged by Iraq's air defense artillery.
   Iraq has never recognized the two air exclusion zones and has
regularly opened fire at Western planes enforcing them.
   Iraq said four civilians were killed when the U.S. and British
warplanes bombed northern Iraq on Monday, one of the heaviest
casualties Iraq suffered since this year.  Enditem