By IPS Correspondents
KUWAIT, Mar 21 2003 (IPS)

A Kuwaiti Military spokesman said air defenses have successfully intercepted an Iraqi missile fired at Kuwait.

Colonel Yousof Al-Mulla said on Kuwait Television the missile, possibly a Scud, had been intercepted in air and successfully destroyed.

Mulla did not say where the missile was shot down, only that the direction it was flying in allowed it to be intercepted.

Less than an hour earlier, Mulla had said that a ninth missile was fired at Kuwait but that it was not deemed a threat to any vital or populated area. It was unclear whether or where the missile hit.

The latest attack was announced after sirens sounded for at least the fourth time across Kuwait early Friday.

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