The initial wave of bombing today showed that buildings and airfields are relatively easy to hit.
As the United States launched its second wave of bombing attacks in Afghanistan yesterday, the city navigated its way through yet another of what are likely to be many days of extraordinary security efforts.
Ammar al Selmo, the head of the civil defence rescue service in east Aleppo, told Reuters a fresh wave of bombing had started at 6am local time after heavy overnight attacks.
After a resumed wave of bombing in early 1996, Mr. Arafat's security services began hounding the Islamic forces and continued until last summer, when about 300 Hamas and Jihad members were in jail.
He is a small, lithe, thoughtful figure, and his voice, with its soft Arkansas drawl, has a disquieting element of gentleness... On March 24th, when the air campaign began, it was generally believed that a first wave of bombing would get Milosevic back to the negotiating table... Immediately, however, it became clear that "strategic bombing lite" would not work.
Israeli forces have already pushed deep into Gaza but last night appeared to be stepping up their fight, with witnesses reporting wave after wave of bombing strikes across the north of the territory accompanied by gunfire from helicopters and artillery from land and sea.
He is a small, lithe, thoughtful figure, and his voice, with its soft Arkansas drawl, has a disquieting element of gentleness... On March 24th, when the air campaign began, it was generally believed that a first wave of bombing would get Milosevic back to the negotiating table... Immediately, however, it became clear that "strategic bombing lite" would not work..
After a pause of a few hours, a second and third wave of bombing resumed in the evening with attacks on Isis lines outside Irbil, the largest city in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, with a population of 1.5 million inflated by thousands of Arab refugees from fighting elsewhere in Iraq.
Mr. Rumsfeld is the most senior American official to visit Iraq since May, and his journey comes closely on the heels of a wave of bombing attacks, including the strike six days ago that killed a top Shiite cleric and nearly 100 others in Najaf.
