"We were in our housing trailers when missiles started to fall … Not everybody managed to take shelter," he said.
Scud missiles started to rain down on the city in late 2012, gouging giant craters where whole neighbourhoods once stood.
While force has been threatened in the past to back up Unscom in its disarming duties, this time its purpose would be different: once missiles started to fly, Unscom's role inside Iraq would be over.
When the cruise missiles started hitting Baghdad last Wednesday, Mr. Fleischer strode into the White House press briefing room to announce in a two-sentence statement that "the opening stages of the disarmament of the Iraqi regime have begun".
And up at Columbus Circle it was Youth Bloc and Carnival Bloc and Reclaim the Streets, gathered in freezing, slanting rain — a sodden mass of a few hundred people chanting and beating on homemade drums in, it seemed safe to surmise, a desperate effort both to stay warm and to raise their own spirits the day after American missiles started pounding Baghdad.
Last March, when American warplanes and cruise missiles started bombing the palaces of Saddam Hussein, Mr. Kim broke a seven-year tradition and failed to appear at the appointed time and place to inaugurate the annual session of his nation's rubber stamp Parliament, the Supreme People's Assembly.
One of the turning points in the Russian-Afghan war, if you remember, is when US-supplied grenade launchers stinger missiles started taking down Soviet helicopters.
The results of the investigation could determine where American bombs and missiles start to fall.
So if the missiles start flying, and they're crappy North Korean missiles, maybe they'll just miss".
In 1979, in response to the Soviet deployment of SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles targeted on western Europe, NATO decided to deploy cruise and Pershing II ballistic missiles starting in December 1983.
