A9 Another Side of 'Pearl Harbor' The movie "Pearl Harbor" is drawing crowds in Hawaii, but also criticism for spending 40 minutes on the 1941 attack without showing that the Japanese not only bombed battleships, killing more than 2,000 sailors, but also bombed and strafed all over Oahu, causing fires and reducing buildings to rubble.
But to others, it is grating that the movie spends 40 minutes on the Japanese attack without showing that the Japanese not only bombed battleships, killing more than 2,000 sailors, but also bombed and strafed all over Oahu, this island where Pearl Harbor is situated, causing fires and reducing buildings to rubble.
In our highly connected world, it is not only bombs that can be used to strike back.
The destroyed evidence, decades of records of the Tinners' activities, included not only bomb and centrifuge plans but also documents linking the family to the C.I.A., officials said.
When she finally makes it to her audition, she not only bombs, but tries to sell the uptight casting director (Jane Lynch) her prized possession, a bag of the once-coveted "government weed" that Californians can now easily buy with a prescription.
They painted a monstrous picture of the giant Americans, accusing them not only of bombing villages but also of practicing cannibalism and slitting the bellies of pregnant women.
Ahmad Chalabi has now given the Bush Administration an updated war plan, which calls not only for bombing but for the deployment of thousands of American Special Forces troops.
All of a sudden, terrorism is not only about bombing landmark buildings or popular public spaces - these actions are sending a clearer message.
Source information is rightly highly classified, but the March 30 swoops, which netted not only men but bomb-making material, indicate either good signals intelligence (better than the "chatter" we so often hear about), or a very good human source.
My children haven't only seen bombing; they have also seen death with their own eyes.
