They have also imposed a no-flight zone over southern Iraq.

"Is he using this as a great excuse to violate the no-flight zones?"

First, extend the northern and southern no-flight zones to include the whole country.

Another would be to expand the no-flight zones over Iraq.

A similar no-flight zone in southern Iraq was imposed later.

But there have been no recent Iraqi violations of the no-flight zone in the north.

French officials said, however, the decision to extend the no-flight zone had been made without consulting them.

The no-flight zone is just that, and it has no bearing on the movement of ground troops within Iraq's borders.

Planes based there patrol the no-flight zone over southern Iraq.

How does the new information we have impact on the restrictions currently in place and the definition of the no-flight zones?