JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: As we told you earlier in the hour, Iraq is saying that allied planes bombed a soccer field, killing 23 people. The Iraqi news agency says U.S. and British jets carried out the attack in an area in northern Iraq, near the city of Mosul. However, it did not say when this happened. U.S. and British officials in any case deny the claim. Joining us to explain a little bit more about this is CNN military affairs correspondent Jamie McIntyre. Jamie, you know, I think a lot of us have sort of sort lost the radar on what's going on over Iraq with these no-fly zones. These things are still being enforced? How routine is this? And what about these exchanges?</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, what's pretty routine is that almost every time U.S. planes go up now to enforce either the northern or southern no-fly zone, they are being shot at by Iraqi gunners. We just were over in -- at Incirlik, Turkey just a couple of weeks ago talking to some of the pilots, and they tell us that every day they go up they're being fired at with missiles and anti-aircraft fire. In this case, yesterday, planes were patrolling the northern no- fly zone and Pentagon sources say that the planes were fired at by anti-aircraft artillery and at least five SA-6 surface-to-air missiles. The U.S. planes, however, did not respond, and that's part of the policy of the Pentagon, to decide how and when it will respond to these kinds of provocations. So the planes did not respond. They returned without dropping any bombs. What the U.S. thinks happened in this case is they believe that one of these surface-to-air missiles went up and came down, and that a booster from one of the missiles fell on this soccer field, causing whatever casualties Iraq claims happened.</s>CHEN: CNN military affairs correspondent Jamie McIntyre giving us the latest there from the Pentagon today.
Iraq Claims U.S., British Jets Bombed Soccer Field