Sentence examples for compound bombing from inspiring English sources

Colonel Qaddafi referred in his message to the compound bombing, apparently eager to confirm that he was alive.

But acting as a sort of truth squad in weighing the authenticity of the Qaddafi government's accounts of the bombings is an essential part of the job description for foreign journalists, and the notion of reporters lingering in a children's playground in the pre-dawn hours was not the only element in the official story of the compound bombing that raised serious doubts.

The president could easily have had the compound bombed, leaving all its occupants dead and the United States with no intelligence and no idea of whom we had killed.

They dined alone — if you don't count the dozens of servants and Libyan aides rushing about with spicy lentil soup and other delicacies — in the private kitchen of his tent at his Bab al Azizia residence, the compound bombed by American airstrikes in 1986 at the height of the American-Libyan tensions.

Ms. Rice, after waiting at the Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel here for an hour as the Ramadan sun set, finally got word that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was ready to receive her at his Bab al Azizia residence — the same compound bombed by American airstrikes in 1986 during the height of tensions with Libya.

They dined alone – if you don't count the dozens of servants and Libyan aides rushing about with spicy lentil soup and other delicacies – in the private kitchen of his tent at his Bab al-Aziziya residence, the compound bombed by American airstrikes in 1986 at the height of the American-Libyan tensions.

A6 Pakistani Compounds Bombed Pakistani Air Force planes and military gunship helicopters bombed three compounds in the rugged tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, including one that foreign militants used as a terrorist training and transit camp with its own firing range.

Rolling Stones David Fricke called 21st Century Breakdown "a compound bomb of classic-rock ecstasy, no-mercy punk assault and pop-song wiles; it's like The Clash's London Calling, The Who's Quadrophenia and Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade all compressed into 18 songs".

They said they had come to protect Colonel Qaddafi's compound from bombing by volunteering to be shields.

The compound was bombed repeatedly by NATO this year before being taken by the rebels on Aug. 23.

One report details an incident where a compound was bombed in an attempt to kill a "high-value individual", after "ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the area".