Word: tomahawk
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...smoke rose above Baghdad in plumes of thick, black soot, carrying with it the ashes of a dying regime. The nights were full of fire and noise, as thousands of Tomahawk missiles and smart bombs crashed into their targets, sending up balloons of searing orange flame into the night sky. In the light of day, calm descended on the city's streets, and the silence was pierced only by the crackle of burning buildings and the wail of emergency sirens. Iraqi officials angrily prevented reporters from venturing near the scenes of destruction, but word spread quickly among the hardened citizens...
...opening bell. Acting on fresh information that came in hours before the deadline the U.S. President had set for Saddam to give up power, George W. Bush ordered U.S. forces to strike the Baghdad bunker where Saddam was believed to be sleeping. Just before dawn Thursday, three dozen Tomahawk missiles outfitted with 1,000-lb. warheads were unleashed from six warships in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea and slammed into three buildings in Baghdad. "The intelligence indicated there would be senior Iraqi leadership at all three," a Pentagon official said, "but one target was more important than the other...
...spite of the bravado, Ansar has found itself on this day on the defensive on the snowy mountains on Iraq's border with Iran, driven from its lowland frontline by a week of pummeling by Tomahawk and Cruise missiles. For a year, Ansar had fought PUK forces in trenches and bunkers on the plains below Shram mountain. Indeed, until Friday, the lowland village of Biarra was Ansar's base. But on at 2 p.m. that day, a mosque used as a terrorist headquarters, replete with a gunpit on top, was flattened by U.S. bombing. The Puck captured it an hour...
...According to U.S. officials, President Bush ordered U.S. forces to strike the Baghdad bunker where Saddam and his sons were believed to be sleeping. They said that three dozen Tomahawk missiles, outfitted with 1,000-lb. warheads and fired from six battleships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, slammed into three targeted buildings in Baghdad. In addition, two U.S. F-117 warplanes from an air base in Qatar dropped four 2,000-lb. bombs on the underground bunker believed to be housing Saddam, Qusay and Uday. The CIA received an intelligence report that one of Saddam's sons...
...thing that bothers me the most is the problem of just cause. I gawk at the idea of tomahawk missiles exploding all over Iraq. But, unlike some of my other concerns, I have resolved this one. Saddam is a clear threat to the Middle East and the rest of the world. He has continually ignored U.N. resolutions and shown little interest in honorably participating in the society of nations. And even though he likely does not harbor al-Qaeda terrorists, the possibility of Iraqi aid to any terrorist group is too bone-chilling to ignore...