Sentence examples for before the first bombs from inspiring English sources

On March 16th, three days before the first bombs fell on Baghdad, a hundred and sixty-nine orha members flew to Kuwait.

BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 4 - Long before the first bombs exploded in Middle School No.1, marking the beginning of a ferocious battle that left hundreds of schoolchildren and their parents and teachers dead, the hostages had descended to near despair.

On Thursday, Salem Dakhou, 37, received a call just before the first bomb went off.

"Our injuries are not disappearing," said Scott Weisberg, a family doctor from Birmingham, Ala., who crossed the finish line seconds before the first bomb detonated.

Ruediger Korbel, 53, a professor of veterinary medicine from Munich, crossed the finish line about a minute before the first bomb went off.

Now they merely have to show "a law enforcement purpose".The old restrictions, wrote Judge Charles Haight, may have hampered the police before the first bombing of the World Trade Centre in 1993.

A few minutes before the first bomb was detonated, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, told a radio interviewer that Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit was "the envy of the policing world".

All are believed to be members of the Provisional IRA, and some came from Dublin and Belfast only 24 hours before the first bomb, 175lb of gelignite wired to a time-fuse, was found in a crowded street outside New Scotland Yard at 8.30 am.

Dave had finished two minutes before the first bomb went off.

Police now believe the series of guerrilla attacks actually began July 11, two weeks before the first bombing, when Abdelbaki Sahraoui, an elderly Muslim religious leader and co-founder of the FIS, was shot to death by two assassins in his Paris mosque.

Mr. Shah, the Northern Alliance soldier, said he was wakened before dawn by the first bombs, which landed near the Taliban post a few hundred yards in front of him.