U.S. drops nearly 500,000 leaflets over southern Iraq

Friday, February 7, 2003

WASHINGTON -- U.S. planes dropped nearly a half-million leaflets over southern Iraq on Thursday, including some saying American forces "do not wish to harm the noble people of Iraq," the Defense Department said.

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