I think this also comes from the same article.
I want to know what the other 88 aircraft were doing. Aerial displays to entertain the kiddies while their homes were being bombed?
Note: "attempts" They had not shot down or damaged, as far as the article suggests, any aircraft.
I also think that it is important to note that the no-fly zone is not ratified by the UN, and is only a US thing.
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Mr Bush said he was looking forward to the talks, but suggested that the US could do the job on its own if need be. "I am a patient man," he said. "I've got tools; we've got tools at our disposal.
"We cannot let the world's worst leaders blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons."
Like America, China, Russia, France, India, Pakistan and North and South Korea. And which of these countries has used nuclear weapons on a civilain populous?