Pilots honoured
NZPA-Reuter Bagdad Iraq’s President, Mr Saddam Hussein, decorated yesterday nine pilots for their part in an air raid on Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal on Friday and described the attack as “a major historical act.” Mr Hussein, quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency said that the attacking planes had not been opposed by Iranian defences and had suffered no losses. Iran says that it shot down one Iraqi aircraft. An Iranian diplomat in Istanbul, Turkey, dismissed the raid as unimportant. Independent oil and shipping sources in the Gulf say that several ships were hit, including a Maltese oil tanker, and that one loading jetty on the east of the island had been damaged in the raid. It is not yet known to what extent, if any, Iranian oil exports will be disrupted. Shipping sources in the Gulf said last evening that a ship was hit in an apparent Iranian air attack 25 miles east of Qatar. They named the vessel as the Naes Leopard. The sources said that the ship had been hit south of the Shah Allum shoal.
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