61. Iraqi jets violated the no-fly zone in the north Thursday for reconnaissance flights over the areas of heavy fighting, it added. 62. Its jet fighters make daily reconnaissance flights over northern Iraq. 63. Ivanko said the peacekeeper commander in Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith, asked NATO to conduct reconnaissance flights to locate Serb weapons firing on the safe zone. 64. Marriner said that a U.S. helicopter on a routine reconnaissance flight on Friday spotted the vehicles. 65. Meanwhile, Pentagon officials said Defense Secretary Rumsfeld may recommend resuming the reconnaissance flights as early as Thursday and probably will not prescribe fighter jet escorts. 66. Milosevic also agreed to accept NATO aerial reconnaissance flights and monitors on the ground to make sure he is complying with accord conditions, including a ceasefire. 67. NATO sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, indicated reconnaissance flights were still on the agenda today despite the communications mix-up. 68. NATO was also working on an agreeement with Yugoslavia for reconnaissance flights over Kosovo to back up the OSCE ground verification mission. 69. NATO will also fly reconnaissance flights for the Slavonia peacekeepers. 70. NATO sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that despite the mix-up, reconnaissance flights were still on the agenda. |
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