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As President Bush prepares to address the American people on the war in Iraq, the country has been "unusually quiet," an official said Sunday, a day after two surface-to-air missiles were fired at a coalition aircraft leaving an airport in the capital.

It was not known who fired the missiles, and military spokesman Lt. Col. George Krivo acknowledged that it was difficult to secure Baghdad International Airport against such attacks.

"This is not the first time that such weapons have been used in this area ... this is not an unusual occurrence. However, it's something that we are circumspect of and we will take appropriate action to ensure it doesn't endanger coalition aircraft," he said during a briefing.

"You could fire a shoulder-fired missile from anywhere from 20 or 30 kilometers from the airport, so to say that you can prevent that from occurring, I'm not sure that that's accurate," he said.

Commercial flights to and from Iraq have been suspended since the 1991 Gulf War...

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