Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...area that has been completely leveled. F-117A fighter-bombers take out Iraqi antiaircraft missiles. Tomahawk cruise missiles from the battleship Wisconsin hit communications centers, truck junctions, munitions depots. B-52 bombers blast targets with highly accurate missiles. Most important, a variety of weapons * throw a suffocating "electronic blanket" over the area, jamming and disrupting Iraqi military communications (but not U.S. communications, which operate on different frequencies...
...north. Nor is there any ground fighting, at least initially. The Iraqi troops in Kuwait are totally cut off from the main army in Iraq proper. No supplies or reinforcements can reach them through the "death zone"; no radio messages or other communications can penetrate the electronic blanket. The Iraqis quickly withdraw -- or if they do not, U.S. airborne and amphibious assaults coupled with a ground attack flanking Kuwait break them up quickly (a lot of Iraqi tanks are destroyed by air raids too). In the most optimistic scenario, Saddam Hussein's generals depose him and sue for peace...
...surrounding hills are filled with caves, where the Palestinian activists often hide. One moonlit night, some months after our talk, a young collaborator led Israeli soldiers to the bush that concealed the cave where Mahmoud had set up a cozy apartment, with mattress and blanket, a lantern and jars of olives. Mahmoud is now in an Israeli jail...
...Increasingly, the forests have been transmogrified into tree farms of numbing uniformity, countless ankle-high seedlings and spindly saplings germinated from seeds selected for their productive capacity. The logging operations have tattered the seamless fabric of old growth that once covered the land. "There are more holes in the blanket than there is blanket," laments BLM biologist Frank Oliver. According to the National Audubon Society, each year enough old-growth trees are taken from the Pacific Northwest to fill a convoy of trucks 20,000 miles long...
...more than a deep breath, then places a hand on the boy's lips to silence him. His hand falls to the boy's chest and lingers there, an offer of consolation. After another nurse arrives and administers morphine, the boy drifts to sleep. His brother pulls the blanket back over his bandages...