11.  An Iraqi plane left for Syria Thursday carrying humanitarian supplies, including tents, food and medicine, Transportation Minister Ahmed Murtadha Ahmed told reporters in Baghdad.

12.  Council diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said any statement should also criticize Saudi Arabia, which allowed the Iraqi plane to return to Baghdad.

13.  However, Pentagon spokesman Col. Richard Bridges said Wednesday there have been no reported sightings of Iraqi planes in the air in the past few days.

14.  Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had earlier urged Arabs around the world to support Iraq after an Iraqi plane crashed in southern Iraq following a dogfight with U.S. fighter.

15.  Later the Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, told a news conference that two Saudi jet fighters were dispatched to intercept the Iraqi plane.

16.  No Iraqi planes are permitted to fly in the zone.

17.  One Iraqi plane appeared to have crashed, officials in Washington said.

18.  Prince Nayef said the Iraqi plane had flown via Jordan.

19.  The broadcast came shortly after U.S. jets fired air-to-air missiles at Iraqi planes in the south.

20.  Their mission is to keep Iraqi planes out of the air.