September 3-4, 1996: US Attacks Iraqi Military Sites

The US launches 44 Tomahawk cruise missiles at eight Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites and seven air-defense command-and-control facilities. This is in response to a raid by Iraqi forces on Kurdish sites in the northern safe-haven zone (see August 1996). [Barletta and Jorgensen, 5/1999; Roberts, 2008, pp. 121-122]