After the explosions subsided, rocket-propelled grenades, antiaircraft rounds and small arms ammunition lay strewn over a wide area of the town.
A spokesman for a United Nations mission along the border said an investigation had found that Iraq was firing antiaircraft rounds at American and British warplanes that were flying over southern Iraq at the time of the incident.
And the movie does not give even a glancing reference to the scores of Hawaiian civilians killed in the attack, most of them by friendly fire as antiaircraft rounds missed their targets and landed in Honolulu.
And the movie does not give even a glancing reference to the scores of Hawaiian civilians -- the youngest a 3-month-old girl -- who were killed in the attack, most of them from friendly fire as antiaircraft rounds missed their targets and landed several miles away in Honolulu.
Jets are heard overhead, followed by the stacatto sound of tens of thousands of rounds of antiaircraft munitions being fired from the ground.
Eck's writing is best when it vivifies the danger: making us feel the heat of the explosions, see the billowing black smoke or hear the sound of an antiaircraft gun "burping its rounds off randomly".
GA'A, Libya — Five months after the armed uprising erupted in Libya, a new round of portable antiaircraft missiles — weapons that governments fear could be obtained by terrorists and then fired at civilian jetliners — have been slipping from storage bunkers captured by rebels.
Page A8 MISSILES MISSING IN LIBYA Five months after the armed uprising erupted in Libya, a fresh round of portable antiaircraft missiles -- weapons that governments fear could be obtained by terrorists and then fired at civilian jetliners -- have disappeared from storage bunkers captured by rebels.
Those included nuclear artillery shells, nuclear antiaircraft missiles, and nuclear antitank rounds.
