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	Carpet bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase carpet bombing refers to the use of large numbers of unguided gravity bombs, often with a high proportion of incendiary bombs, to attempt the complete destruction of a target region, either to destroy personnel and materiel, or as a means to demoralize the enemy (see terror bombing).
		Initially, carpet bombing was effected by multiple aircraft, often returning to the target in waves.
		Carpet bombing is often linked to strategic bombing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carpet_bombing (281 words)

	Strategic bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carpet bombing by multiple modern strategic bombers like the B-52 can be likened to an hour during the Somme bottled into a thirty second time period.
		Due to this, and the ineffectiveness of carpet bombing, partly because of a lack of identifiable targets, new precision weapons were developed.
		The Bombing of Guernica: the first aerial bombardment in history in which a civilian population was attacked with the apparent intent of producing total destruction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strategic_bombing (2931 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bomber
		The majority of bombing was still done by one-engined biplanes with one or two crew-members flying short distances to attack the enemy lines and immediate hinterland.
		Since the bombs were now "stand off" designs (effectively large guided missiles themselves) they did not have to climb over the targets to drop them but would have fired and turned away to escape the blast.
		Meanwhile, the British strategic bombing force largely came to an end with the phase-out of the V Bomber force (the last of which left service in 1983.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bomber (1160 words)

	Guardian \| US steps up strikes by carpet-bombing Taliban
		Bombs smothered a Taliban-held ridge in the Tutakhan hills, a strategic location overlooking the main road south from alliance lines to Kabul.
		In a second wave of bombing, a series of explosions could be seen west of Rabat in and around Estarghech, a Taliban position at the foot of the mountains lining the lush Shomali plain.
		A bomb crater was visible in the hospital's compound and a doctor, Obeidallah Hadid, said 15 people had been killed and 25 badly injured.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4289519-108952,00.html (565 words)

	Monkeyfist.com: Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
		The use of cluster bombs (news - web sites) has been condemned by the UN and many human rights groups because the small "bomblets" are painted bright yellow, easily mistaken for toys or food packages by children.
		Most recently, American bombing in Tora Bora (news - web sites) has resulted in heavy civilian casualties, according to claims by the pro-American, anti-Taliban forces currently in control of the region, where Osama Bin Laden is said to be hiding.
		As for civilian casualties from bombings, any increase in discussion or analysis of these in the press, mainstream or otherwise, would surely be welcomed by those currently "shattered", military and civilian alike.
	monkeyfist.com /articles/800 (624 words)

	Kosovo War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the use of technologies such as depleted uranium ammunition and cluster bombs was highly controversial, as was the bombing of oil refineries and chemical plants, which led to accusations of "environmental warfare".
		Towards the end of the war, it was claimed that carpet bombing by B-52 aircraft had caused huge casualties among Serbian troops stationed along the Kosovo–Albania border.
		Shortly after the start of the bombing, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, along with Milan Milutinović, Nikola Sainović, Dragoljub Ojdanić and Vlajko Stojiljković were charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with crimes against humanity including murder, forcible transfer, deportation and "persecution on political, racial or religious grounds".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovo_War (10895 words)

	Bombing With Blindfolds On
		But however much we long to be consoled by a distinction between military and civilian targets (''carpet bombing'' notwithstanding), the history of bombing suggests that that distinction itself is a lie.
		The atomic bomb was dropped on the ''base,'' he said, because ''we wished in the first attack to avoid as much as possible the killing of civilians.'' At least 95 percent of the 100,000 killed immediately at that ''base,'' also known as Hiroshima, were civilians, as Truman surely knew.
		After the revelations of the immorality of that war, Americans had a right to assume that ''carpet bombing'' by B-52s was a thing of the past.
	www.progressiveaustin.org /jcarroll.htm (820 words)

	Carpet bombing 'kills 150 civilians' in frontline town
		Terrified refugees fleeing the town of Khanabad yesterday told The Independent that American planes had bombed the area a few miles from Kunduz daily since Thursday, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the buildings they were bombing were civilian homes.
		The bombing raids over the past two days were described as among the heaviest in 43 days of war.
		The refugees said they had endured three days of bombing before the Taliban ordered them out of their homes and told them they were free to cross the front line.
	www.rawa.org /s-kill2.htm (766 words)

	Carpet Cleaning and Carpet Bombing - Torah.org
		To begin with, they had to roll up the numerous carpets on the floors of the residence and neatly stack them in a corner to avoid damaging or dirtying them.
		The troops were strictly forbidden to use the electricity or gas in the house, since the costs involved would inevitably have fallen on the Palestinian owner's shoulders at the end of the month, something the army did not deem fair to the man or his family.
		At the end of the mission, when it was time for the troops to withdraw, they went about one last maneuver before leaving the house they put aside their guns and picked up their mops, thoroughly cleaning the premises, returning the carpets to their original location, and tidying up as much as they could.
	www.torah.org /features/israelmatters/carpet.html (1021 words)

	Flame Warriors ~ View topic - Tactic: Carpet Bombing
		The inverse of a Grenade, a Carpet Bombing is a massive post that sites/quotes and attacks every opposing point in the thread, and sometimes arguments that hadn't even been made yet.
		A thorough Carpet Bombing often brings about the end of a thread; the scorched earth left behind is unlikely to be fertile enough for further discussion.
		All a carpet bombing is is a lot of rebuttals and counterpoints in a single post.
	redwing.hutman.net /~mreed/forum/viewtopic.php?t=208 (1178 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| Global Affairs Commentary \| Collateral Damage Means Real People
		When bombs hit Boeng village, according to peasants, many people were caught in their houses and burnt to death.
		Every time after there had been bombing, they would take the people to see the craters, to see how big and deep the craters were, to see how the earth had been gouged out and scorched...
		It was because of their dissatisfaction with the bombing that they kept on cooperating with the Khmer Rouge, joining up with the Khmer Rouge, sending their children off to go with them...
	www.fpif.org /commentary/2002/0211coldam_body.html (1324 words)

	Bombing of Dresden
		Air Marshall Arthur Harris agreed and when he became head of RAF Bomber Command in February 1942, he introduced a policy of area bombing (known in Germany as terror bombing) where entire cities and towns were targeted.
		The population of the city was now far greater than the normal 650,000 due to the large numbers of refugees fleeing from the advancing Red Army.
		Attempts to treat the bombing of Dresden as a war crime perpetrated against the innocent inhabitants of a historical cultural centre of no industrial or military significance began two days after the attack.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWdresden.htm (2740 words)

	Crimes Of War Project > The Book
		Air attacks on a city that treat it as a single military objective instead of clearly distinguishing military objectives and attacking them individually are an example of area bombardment, often called carpet bombing.
		Legal arguments and military rationales were given for the strategic bombing campaign, among them to destroy the enemy’s industry, to weaken the morale of the population, or simply to punish the adversary for its previous violations.
		The U.S. military command has acknowledged that the bombing of the Iraqi Basra area by American B-52 bombers in 1991 was an area bombardment.
	www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/carpet-area-bomb.html (450 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Cambodia - Pol Pot's Shadow . Chronicle of Survival . 1969-1974: Caught in the crossfire \| PBS
		The Nixon Administration kept the bombings secret from Congress for several months, insisting they were directed against legitimate Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets.
		Shortly after the bombing began, Sihanouk restored diplomatic relations with the US, expressing concern over the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.
		at the bombs falling from B-52s as something they had to oppose if they were going to have freedom.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/tl02.html (451 words)

	GERMANY: Carpet and precision bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A feature of World War II was the carpet bombing of Germany.
		The West Germans felt so too, and in their shame avoided the subject but in East Germany, as at Dresden, it was played up as a crime of the "imperialists".
		Now the idea of carpet bombing is no longer acceptable; hence the stress on precision bombing.
	wais.stanford.edu /Germany/germany_carpetandprecisionbombing12103.html (104 words)

	Halfbakery: Fitted carpet bombing
		Dropping bombs on one's enemy is very expensive, and often less effective than tacticians would have us think.
		Techinques like "carpet bombing" (where enitre large areas are systematically pounded) do work after a fashion but it's still appalingly inefficient.
		Regarding the 'bomb them fridges' theory, I think the problem isn't that they (whoever they might be) haven't got fridges, it's that 'they' havent a) got any electricity to run them from and b) even if 'they' did, 'they' haven't got anything to put in the fridges.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Fitted_20carpet_20bombing (1554 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Lacrosse - Carpet bombing
		The Calgary Roughnecks majority owner and president charges the state of the team's playing carpet reached a new low before their season-opener against the San Jose Stealth Jan. 7.
		Banister, along with other Riggers personnel, spent hours re-laying the carpet until the stripes finally gave it the green light and the nationally televised game went ahead.
		Banister said he feels his team's carpet -- worth more than $150,000 -- is now in the worst shape of any team in the league because of its poor maintenance.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Lacrosse/2005/01/21/905784.html (457 words)

	portland imc - 2001.11.18 - Carpet bombing 'kills 150 civilians' in frontline town
		Carpet bombing 'kills 150 civilians' in frontline town
		Carpet bombing 'kills 150 civilians' in frontline town 19 November 2001 UK Independent coverage of Khanabad, Afganistan air bombardment
		The children had no shoes; they had been walking for seven hours and their feet were raw.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2001/11/4814.shtml (742 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. carpet-bombs Taliban lines - October 31, 2001
		The Pentagon's target map shows that U.S. bombing has almost completely shifted to areas around two Taliban strongholds: the strategic northern crossroads of Mazar-e Sharif and the Afghan capital, Kabul, which the United States would like to see fall soon to the Northern Alliance.
		One is the Global Hawk, a high-flying experimental, unmanned spy plane, and the other is the J-STARS, a radar plane with a proven record from the Gulf War of spotting targets on the ground.
		Northern Alliance soldiers said that in the past two days, U.S. bombs have targeted camps in the hills where soldiers loyal to a leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and a confidante of bin Laden have been hiding.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/31/ret.attacks.afghanistan (1238 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Bombing to go on during Ramadan
		At the same time, the Pentagon confirmed that it was preparing to substantially increase the number of troops on the ground in Afghanistan - currently estimated to be fewer than 100.
		The Taleban regime, which is harbouring Osama Bin Laden - the man suspected of masterminding the 11 September terror attacks on the US, said that American bombs hit one of the country's biggest power plants, cutting electricity supplies to the Taleban stronghold of Kandahar and the city of Lashkargah.
		Cluster bombs have proved to be a particularly controversial aspect of the US campaign, as many believe their primary victims are civilians.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1633140.stm (868 words)

	Taliban Claim Downing Of US Jet Fighter - Carpet Bombing Continues
		The US planes heavily bombed our frontlines not only in Dara-i-Sauf, but several sorties were made by the planes north of Kabul, targeting the frontlines situated on the Old and New Road areas, Herat, Kandahar and Helmand provinces, the official said.
		In Jalalabad, seven houses have been completely levelled due to heavy bombing of the Baluch village, west of the city while scores of civilians are reported dead in the Lashkar Gah area of Helmand due to the fresh air strikes.
		Taliban sources claimed that US planes also bombed the opposition frontlines in the Khwaja Ghar area, but no details of the loss to lives and property were immediately available.
	www.rense.com /general16/down.htm (885 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| B52 carpet bombing 'can oust Taliban'
		It sent down one salvo of bombs, setting off a series of at least 15 explosions over a distance of half a mile, before returning for a second attack.
		The intensified bombing was apparently in response to criticism from congressmen that America was not making enough use of its military clout.
		The B52 Stratofortress was used in the bombing of Cambodia, to destroy Iraq's Republican Guard during the Gulf war and against Yugoslav troops in Kosovo.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/01/wmil01.xml (1004 words)

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		As for why no carpet bombings I would assume that they are holding off until the Northern Alliance are actually ready to move and there is a political solution to who is in charge when the dust settles.
		The carpet bombing started when our spotters got into place.
		I think the carpet bombing showed them that they can't up under bombing like they thought they could when we were doing the pinprick strikes.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/68-93.asp (1025 words)

	B52 Carpet Bombing ? - Topic Powered by eve community
		The B1-B can carpet bomb but the B-52 seems to only want to drop one bomb per target.
		The funny thing is the respective AI behaviour is in the game already - the B-52 performs perfect carpet attacks on runways, and the B-1, Tu-160 and Tu-95 manage to get off their bombload at once under all circumstances.
		I tied Bombing with just the internal bays loaded (no bombs on wing pilons) and the B52 did carpet bomb the set target.
	forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x?m=252103342&a=tpc&s=400102&f=38610606 (429 words)

	New study points to positive benefits of carpet bombing and marriage (Pub-friendly) [The Rockall Times] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Researchers at the University of Berkley in California (America) surveyed couples in the West-Texas area, as well as foreign nationals affected by US military actions over the last 30 years and concluded that far from being negative, US-led bombing and marital relations are in fact of equal life-enhancing value.
		The study — funded by the Pentagon and the Seventh-day Adventist Church of America Ltd — has amazed other scientists since previous studies had concluded that marriage was comparable to accidentally stepping on a cluster bomb and having your arsehole blown out through your nose.
		The study, says the university, sends a clear message that both public support of foreign wars and getting to the church on time should be the primary goals of all citizens in free and democratic societies.
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2002/03/11/carpet-bombing.pub.html (420 words)

	B-52's Begin Carpet Bombing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carpet bombing clears the way for troop and vehicle movement by eliminating landmines, vehicles, personnel and other living things.
		Indeed, the bombs are targeted by UTM grid square and the entire square (usually a 1 kilometer square) is covered with bombs like wall-to-wall carpet, then on to the next square, etc. Repeat as necessary until all nothing moves.
		When I think of Carpet Bombing I think of ten B-52's flying in formation laying down their ordnance payloads simultaneously.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/560535/posts (1934 words)

	Carpet bombing (bombing) line - Topic Powered by eve community
		This will start the bombing at that point and you get the line you are looking for.
		It would be really sweet if the line was visible in the mission editor and you could see how it will bomb.
		That way, the bomber will break off immediately after releasing his bombs instead of flying all the way across the target area until he hits the waypoint.
	forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=400102&f=38610606&m=634100462 (1165 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "Carpet bombing kills 150 civilians' in frontline town"
		We were utterly appalled at the deaths of so many innocent people, and loud was the condemnation of the cold blooded bastards, that could do such a thing.
		If on the other hand you think that US goals are worth whatever price has to be paid, fine, just be honest about it, don't try to have it both ways.
		Plus, I am not convinced that this bombing is actually about what they claim it is. I think a lot of it has to do with ideological craziness on the part of what Pat Buchanan is calling "the party of war" within the administration.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/9439.html (1364 words)

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