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Usage examples of zones.

Last, the enforcement of the no-fly zones prevents Iraq from fully reconstituting its air defenses in southern Iraq, which would make striking an Iraqi ground buildup near Kuwait or Saudi Arabia much easier.

In late December, he began harassing coalition air forces patrolling the southern no-fly zones, but all this achieved was angry warnings from the United States, France, Britain, and Russia and the loss of an Iraqi MiG in combat with a U.

THE NO-FLY zones Of all the key elements of containment, the one under the least pressure right now is the Anglo-American patrols of the no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq.

First, the United States would effectively allow the Iraq sanctions, inspections, and even the no-fly zones to dissipate.

By eliminating the constant fights over the sanctions, inspections, no-fly zones, and so on, we would eliminate a major drain on U.

He had always known that the city was corruptand dangerous too, though not in a filthy obvious way like those dark parts of New Jersey and Brooklyn and the no-go zones of America where there were ruins and no skylights and even the police were dangerous.

But she had stayed in Red Zones, she had gone with Hardy on field trips, she had traveled in surface vehicles.

Though it was awful here, and no one had succeeded in getting rid of these peripheral zones of gutted buildings.

It had seemed terrifying-looking but in some of its towns what Moura had taken to be rubble were houses, and within the county there were sealed settlements and secure zones that were elegant and had water somehow, maybe their own policed pipes and reservoirs.

Entertainment zones, any kind of goods or services one might desire, even if illicit, plus many of the comforts of home, major shopping with no tariffs, all that.

Occupied Zones would be accepted for operations had served them well in decreased vulnerability to reprisals, yet it held their numbers down.

The infidels outside the Occupied Zones still hid their heretical priests, and it was almost as bad inside the OZ.

Jahanak when hundreds of infidel fighters swept out of nowhere and streaked through space toward the blind zones of his retreating starships.

The Well is to be divided into military zones, each under an overall commander.

Since early 1999, Iraqi air defense forces have been shooting at coalition planes patrolling the no-fly zones on an almost daily basis, provoking the coalition pilots to respond in self-defense from time to time.