Article: Heavy bombardment shaking Baghdad

Dictionary definition: late heavy bombardment
A Dictionary of Astronomy;      285 words ...late heavy bombardment A period about 4 billion years ago during which planetary bodies ... diminished, and after about 3.9 billion years ago the late heavy bombardment came to an end. Impacts have continued to occur on planets and ...

Article: Writethru: Baghdad under new heavy bombardment
Xinhua News Agency;  March 28, 2003 ;     340 words ...Writethru: Baghdad under new heavy bombardment Eds: Updates with timing and direction of bombardment ... Xinhua) -- The Iraqi capital of Baghdad was under new heavy bombardment of coalition forces in the small hours of Friday morning ...

Article: Feature: Baghdad, a city under heavy bombardment
Xinhua News Agency;  April 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Feature: Baghdad, a city under heavy bombardment by Moussa Jaffar BAGHDAD, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Baghdad ... anxiety, alarm and desperation from the continuous heavy bombardment. On Tuesday, Baghdad was pounded again by heavy and ...

Article: Heavy bombardment on Sadr city despite ceasefire.
Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq);  May 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: MH/SR Baghdad, May 10, (VOI) a" Three large parts of Sadr city were subjected to heavy bombardment that was continuously carried out by U.S. helicopters, starting from Saturday 3:30 p.m. until now, despite the Iraqi ...

Article: Baghdad comes under heavy bombardment
AP Worldstream;  March 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 0000 Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq Aircraft screamed in low over the Iraqi capital, shaking buildings early Monday with a heavy bombardment. As anti-aircraft guns responded, a call of God is great rang out from a mosque, apparently to boost Iraqis' morale ...

Article: URGENT: Baghdad under fresh heavy bombardment
Xinhua News Agency;  March 30, 2003 ;     243 words ...URGENT: Baghdad under fresh heavy bombardment BAGHDAD, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Air raid sirens and huge explosions were heard over Baghdad late Sunday night as coalition forces ...

Article: Baghdad under heavy bombardment; Pentagon plans to ...
Al Bawaba;  March 28, 2003 ;     603 words ...U.S. warplanes bombed communication and command facilities Friday in the most powerful bombardment of the capital in days. U.S. forces launched a strike defense officials said was directed to hamper communications between Saddam Hussein's leadership and his military. A B-2 bomber dropped two