10 QUOTES WITH «BOMBING»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
bombing.
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.
In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing.
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.
To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber.
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOMBING»
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bombing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bombing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
On Suicide Bombing is an original and provocative analysis critiquing the work of intellectuals from both the left and the right.
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Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War
In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the ...
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The Unfinished
Bombing : Oklahoma City in American Memory: ...
On April 19, 1995 the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City shook the nation, destroying our complacent sense of safety and sending a community into a tailspin of shock, grief, and bewilderment.
Oshkosh Edward T. Linenthal Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture University of Wisconsin, 2001
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The
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, 11-year-old Danny Crane struggles through the smoke, destruction and chaos to make his way back home.
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Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History
Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians?
Yuki Tanaka, Marilyn B. Young, 2013
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The Strategic
Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945
This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last 20 years, and is also the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity.
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How Effective is Strategic
Bombing?: Lessons Learned from ...
As such it has for decades been used as an objective primary source and a guiding text, a veritable Bible for historians of air power.In this aggressively revisionist volume, Gian Gentileexamines afresh this influential document to reveal ...
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1963 Birmingham Church
Bombing: The Ku Klux Klan's History ...
1963 Birmingham Church Bombing is a Capstone Press publication.
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham
Bombing Survivor Comes ...
While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim Crow South—from the bombings, riots and assassinations to the historic marches and triumphs that characterized the Civil Rights movement.
Carolyn Maull McKinstry, 2011
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Strategic
Bombing by the United States in World War II: The ...
This work sets suppositions against facts surrounding the United States' use of strategic bombing in World War II. Chapters cover the events leading up to World War II; the start of the war; the seers and the planners; the airplanes, bombs, ...
Stewart Halsey Ross, 2002
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOMBING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bombing is used in the context of the following news items.
7/7 bombing anniversary: 10 years on, is Britain now at greater …
Britain is at a greater threat from terror attack now than it was at the time of the 7/7 bombings a decade ago, according to an expert from a ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Brothers arrested over links to Islamic State bombing in Kuwait: report
Three brothers have been arrested by Saudi and Kuwaiti authorities for involvement in a suicide bombing by a Saudi man on a Shi'ite Muslim ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
Victim of 7/7 bombing buried close to Tunisia hotel attack after …
The evil terrorism that killed student Ihab Slimane on 7/7 has come back to haunt his grieving dad Mohamed. For Ihab, 24, murdered in the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
July 7 bombing victims remembered
Services have been held to remember the victims of the July 7 bombings exactly 10 years after London's transport network came under attack. «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
7/7 bombing anniversary: MI5 chief warns Britain faces a 'serious …
Britain faces a “serious societal and security challenge” from some of its own citizens who are prepared to target their homeland, according to ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Eight dead in accidental Iraq bombing
A bomb has fallen from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad because of a 'technical problem', killing at least eight ... «Sky News Australia, Jul 15»
Syria's al-Qaeda offshoot Nusra stages suicide bombing in Aleppo …
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suicide bomber from Syria's al Qaeda offshoot the Nusra Front blew himself up in a Syrian army outpost in a contested ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
Johnson City bombing victim says business looks like a war zone …
Zach Smith speaks with reporters Monday after his business, Victory Orthotics and Prosthetics, was bombed the previous night, allegedly by a ... «Johnson City Press, Jul 15»
7/7 London bombing: Tavistock Square eyewitness Alex Marshall …
Alex Marshall was working in the kitchen of Woburn House when the bomb on top of the number 30 double decker bus detonated at Tavistock ... «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
These pictures show the devastation caused by bombing raids in …
Devastation is the only way to describe these harrowing pictures of Cardiff taken after bombs landed across the city during World War Two. «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
