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  Strategic bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war style campaign that attempts to destroy the economic ability of a nation-state to wage war.
It is different from the tactical event of strategic bombing, which involves strategic bomber aircraft, cruise missiles, or fighter-bomber aircraft attacking targets determined during the organization of the strategic bombing campaign.
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   (2979 words)

  
 World Journal of Emergency Surgery | Full text | Terrorist bombing
Bombings and explosions directed against innocent civilians are the primary instrument of global terror, resulting in death, injury, fear and chaos.
The general types of common explosives used in terror bombing have been discussed elsewhere [8,9], but all explosives produce their detrimental effects through one or more of the following distinct mechanisms of blast injury, each of which is responsible for a different type of injury.
They were analyzed in detail in one particular bombing event where a suicide bomber detonated an 8 to 10 kg charge packed with hundreds of hard steel balls in the centre of a crowded dining hall of a hotel during the ceremonial Passover dinner [5].
www.wjes.org /content/1/1/33   (4263 words)

  
 Terror bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terror bombing is a strategy of deliberately bombing civilian targets and strafing civilians in order to break the morale of the enemy and make its civilian population panic.
The bombing of Gernika was the foremost example, leading to the seminal painting of "Guernica" by the artist Picasso showing all the horror and terror of such attacks.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that "most cruel bomb", forced the Japanese Government into "enduring the [unavoidable] and suffering what is unsufferable" and agreeing to unconditional surrender of their armed forces under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terror_bombing   (2160 words)

  
 London Underground Bombing 'Exercises' Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack
Power told the host that at the exact same time that the London bombings were taking place, his company was running a 1,000 person strong exercise which drilled the London Underground being bombed at the exact same locations, at the exact same times, as happened in real life.
At first the bombings were thought to have been spread over an hour, but the BBC reports just today that the bombings were in fact simultaneous.
The bombing in Bolognia was part of a CIA operation code named Gladio, where the US government would pay right-wing terrorists to carry out bombings to be blamed on leftists in Europe.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htm   (1230 words)

  
 CNN.com - Terror bombing kills two Israelis - May 22, 2002
The terror attack marked the second time in two weeks a suicide bombing directed at civilians has rocked Rishon Letzion, a town about 15 miles southeast of Tel Aviv.
The bombing occurred on Rothschild Street in the heart of the town around 9:15 p.m.
That was the same city where 29 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing on March 27, the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/05/22/mideast/index.html   (634 words)

  
 Terror Bombing In Najaf
Gerecht says the bombing is particularly worrying because it risks the American dialogue with leading Shiites, which is essential for democratisation of Iraq to succeed.
Of all the bad news from Iraq recently ó the bombing of the United Nations headquarters, ongoing attacks on coalition soldiers, hints of foreign terrorists being drawn to a holy war ó Friday's car bombing in the Shiite holy city of Najaf is clearly the most worrisome.
These bombings were undoubtedly intended to terrorize Iraq's clerical establishment and to snuff out the growing dialogue between mainstream Shiites and Americans.
www.aijac.org.au /updates/Sep-03/020903.html   (5372 words)

  
 'Shock and Awe': Terror Bombing, From Wells and Russell to Cheney
The policy of terror bombing was resisted by the United States military until the last few months of the war in the European theater.
The key to precision bombing was careful target selection, and this provided one of the openings for the disproportionate influence exercised over the U.S. air forces by civilians from the banking and business elite, and by their academic hirelings.
The maximum bombing was carried out by the British on the night of July 27, with the mix of munitions changed to incorporate a higher proportion of incendiaries—including phosphorus and napalm.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2003/3042shock_awe_wwii.html   (10086 words)

  
 Oklahoma City Bombing
In their view, the Oklahoma bombing represents an act of terror perpetrated by zealots of the nativist right wing - a rising menace composed of those dangerously nutty militias and racist hate groups.
The FBI initially estimated that the bomb had weighed 1,000 to 2,000 pounds, the payload probably packed in a car; however, in an effort to account for the bomb's massive destructive fore, authorities soon upgraded their estimated to hypothesize a 4,800-pound bomb, most likely delivered via a truck.
An agency that had advance knowledge of the bombing but failed to thwart it would be staring a monumental PR disaster in the face, the kind that might lead to dissolution of that agency.
www.carpenoctem.tv /cons/okla.html   (3142 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.
It was at that moment that the military and political strategists of Britain and the United States decided to launch a terror bombing attack.
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)

  
 Bombing civilians from the air
The British bombing of Kurdistan was the first use of aerial bombardment.
All available aircraft must be collected, the attack with bombs and machine guns must be relentless and unremitting and carried on continuously by day and night, on houses, inhabitants, crops and cattle"(cited in Glancey, op.
This was followed by targeted bombing of phosphorous devices into houses, factories, offices, schools and hospitals, with the objective of spreading a devastating firestorm as rapidly as possible.
infowars.net /articles/december2006/211206Bombing.htm   (838 words)

  
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In his interrogation, the man said that he planned to carry out a terror attack, and according to estimations the target was the center of the capital.
It is still unclear whether he planned to detonate himself with the device or leave it in the area and flee.
The security establishment currently holds dozens of warnings on plans to carry out terror attacks in the home front, in an attempt to expand the fighting arena and hurt more civilians.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3277094,00.html   (461 words)

  
 Green Left - A reminder of who invented terror bombing
Churchill, however, and the RAF head, Arthur “Bomber” Harris, intensified the bombing, especially of residential areas, from 1942, focussing on the “morale of the enemy” civilian population, in particular industrial workers.
B-52 carpet bombing was a staple in Vietnam, alongside vastly enhanced anti-personnel bombs in which multiple bomb particles penetrate the body at high velocity.
The bombing frenzy prolonged the war at great human and environmental cost, and although the US lost the battle, it won the strategic war as bombs became a currency which raised the international price of guerilla warfare for those contemplating national liberation struggles against US political and economic domination.
www.greenleft.org.au /2001/465/25177   (1221 words)

  
 Israel Terrorism
The terror bomber approached the HaSharon Shopping Center and after seeing that there was a line created to check each and every person and bag, he detonated his explosives next to teenagers waiting on the security line.
In a meeting that ended just before the suicide bombing, Israel's Security Cabinet decided to cancel the military government imposed on Gaza after it was captured in 1967 when Israel pulls out of the territory next month, according to a participant in the closed meeting.
Nissim arrived in Israel Tuesday morning after just last week having a close encounter with terror in her hometown of London, where she was caught in near proximity to the July 7th bombings there.
www.israelnewsagency.com /netanyabombisrael110713.html   (1695 words)

  
 theage.com.au - The Age
The likelihood of the blast scaring away hundreds of thousands of tourists could be a devastating blow to not only the island's economy but that of the whole of Indonesia, which is struggling to recover from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.
Kuta, where the deadly bomb blast occurred, is the epicentre of the tourist trade.
Some of the survivors and relatives of those killed in the Bali bombings will sue al-Qaeda's alleged money men as confessions by two alleged Bali bombers reveal Australians were deliberately targeted as allies of the US.
www.theage.com.au /issues/baliterror/index.html   (1435 words)

  
 Iraq - 'Terror Bombing', Starvation and Mechanical Force
‘TERROR BOMBING’ is a phrase that was introduced into the vocabulary of warfare by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris —; a terminological innovation for which the chief of Bombing Command in the Royal Air Force during the second world war is justly famous.
More than a punitive purpose, said Will, the bombs embodied an educational mission, which invited the Arab people to participate in the potential rewards of a civilisation that was capable of such awesome technological prowess.
One of the principles that was applied was that of ‘interdiction’ bombing to choke off the corridors of guerrilla operation in Vietnam.
tmh.floonet.net /articles/terrorbombing.html   (2435 words)

  
 israelinsider: security: Israeli Arab teens arrested for terror bombing in the Galilee
The youths originally intended to plant the bomb in a school on the first day of studies in the nearby city of Carmiel, but were deterred by the high security and decided to plant it elsewhere.
The bomb was discovered at a crowded bus stop on Friday by an IDF soldier, Fahwaz Mujeed, a 26-year-old Bedouin from the Galilee village of Ilaboun.
After dozens of soldiers and civilians were evacuated safely, police sappers were called in to neutralize the bomb, which exploded, causing damage to the sappers' robotic device and to the bus stop structure.
www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0092.htm   (830 words)

  
 RedOrbit - General - Turkey Terror Bombing Kills 27 People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The worst terrorist bombings in Turkey's history coincided with President Bush's trip to Britain and were blamed on al-Qaida.
The second bomb, detonated about five minutes later and five miles away, ripped off the wall surrounding the garden of the British consulate in the Beyoglu district downtown.
On Sunday, Osama bin Laden's terror network claimed responsibility for the bombings in messages to two Arabic-language newspapers; it was not possible to authenticate those claims.
www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=37393   (1281 words)

  
 President Gusmão condemns Jakarta terror bombing
In his message to President Megawati Sukarnoputri, a copy of which was sent to Lusa in Dili, Gusmão described the hotel bombing as "an attack against peace in Indonesia, the region and the world".
The Government and the People of Timor-Leste learned with outrage the terrorist attack in Jakarta JW Marriott Hotel and express their profound sympathy and condolences to the relatives and close friends of the victims; and solidarity with the Government and the people of the Republic of Indonesia.
The Government and the People of Timor-Leste will continue with their extremely limited means to cooperate with neighboring countries in the region and internationally to neutralize the extremist elements whose agenda is to destabilize and undermine our democratic way of life, our freedom and democracy.
www.etan.org /et2003/august/01-9/06presg.htm   (313 words)

  
 IEER: Strategic Bombing, from Target Japan
But terror bombing of the civilian population of an enemy in order to break its morale, was central to air power strategy.
The idea was to prove that incendiary bombing and destruction on a vast scale could be the decisive aspect in the final results of the Pacific War.
The U.S. bombing strategy of 1942-44 against Japan was expanded in a big way in March 1945, beginning with the fire bombing of Tokyo on March 9 and 10, 1945.
www.ieer.org /comments/bombing.html   (2328 words)

  
 israelinsider: security: Terror bombing on Tel Aviv seafront promenade: 3 dead, 55 injured   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The bomb was described as medium in size and included several kilograms of explosive material, nuts and bolts.
In a speech before the vote, Abbas condemned terrorism and promised his new government would crack down on militant groups.
But the Islamic terror group Hamas pledged to continue its attacks on Israel, as did the Al-Aksa Martyr's Brigade of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Security/2241.htm   (649 words)

  
 FEDERAL MURDER INC. TIED TO OKC TERROR BOMBING
The terror loosed in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, was created by criminals and murderers directed by and paid for by the federal government.
There is a memorable news photo of his 6-foot, 3-inch, nearly 300-pound frame sprinting down NW 5th Street toward the building on one of the many rescue missions he performed that ugly day.
Yeakey maintains that Yeakey and Chumley were friends even before the bombing and that they had conferred several times regarding pictures from the scene and the distorted truth of the official story.
www.infowars.com /articles/us/okc_bombing_federal_murder_inc_tied.htm   (1433 words)

  
 Israel: 'Axis of terror' behind bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
homicide bombing in Tel Aviv, despite detailed knowledge of which nations and organizations funded, facilitated and executed the attack.
The bombing, which wounded some 30 Israelis, ?was funded by Iran, planned by Syria, and executed by the Palestinians,?
Thursday's bombing came as Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in Damascus, where the two hailed ongoing ?Palestinian?
www.jnewswire.com /articles/print/836   (346 words)

  
 Madrid Terror Bombing Investigation Nets 29 suspects - Militant Islam Monitor - Militant Islam Monitor
The majority of the bombing suspects are either Moroccan or Syrian Muslim immigrants, though Spanish miner José Emilio Suarez Trashorras is being charged with providing the conspirators with plastic explosives and technical assistance.
Juan del Olmo, the investigative judge, concluded that the bombings had been carried out by an independent local cell of Islamist militants inspired but not directed by al-Qaida.
The charges were contained in a 1,500-page indictment handed down from the national court, the hub of Spanish terrorism investigations.
www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/1826   (608 words)

  
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We welcome the 14 indictments of those who are believed to have perpetrated the heinous bombing of the Khobar Towers complex in 1996.
The specific condemnation of elements of the Iranian government for inspiring, supporting and supervising the attack is but another confirmation of Iran's ongoing support of terrorism.
The ADL Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation combats terrorism through educational, political and legal means, was founded in 1986.
www.adl.org /PresRele/IslEx_61/3868_61.htm   (238 words)

  
 Bush Condemns Latest Terror Bombing in Israel
The United States is determined to continue the global fight against terrorism and against the terrorist organizations that conduct operations such as the murders in Israel today.
U.S.DEPARTMENT OF STATE Richard Boucher, Spokesman Washington, D.C. January 5, 2003 Terrorist Bombings in Tel Aviv The Secretary spoke by telephone with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon today to express the profound sympathy of the United States and the American people for the terrible loss suffered in the terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv earlier today.
It is essential that the Palestinian leadership immediately take every step in their power to bring about a comprehensive end to all violence and terrorist attacks without exception.
www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/press/2003/january/010601.html   (285 words)

  
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Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is dealing for the first time with a multi-casualty bomb attack and is not interested in torpedoing the upcoming Palestinian elections, while refraining from playing into the hand of Islamic Jihad.
According to Olmert's aides, the acting prime minister maintained his cool after being informed of the bombing and continued to receive briefings and analysis via telephone through his military secretary, Major General Gadi Shamni, Defense Minister Mofaz, the army chief, and the Shin Bet director.
Earlier Thursday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said the Tel Aviv terror bombing was carried out in order to undermine the upcoming PA elections.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3203189,00.html   (696 words)

  
 The Truth Seeker - Federal Murder Inc. Tied to OKC Terror Bombing
After numerous private investigators produced evidence of multiple explosions, unexploded bombs being hauled away by the authorities, and the incapability of an ammonium nitrate fuel oil bomb to cause the kind of devastation seen in downtown Oklahoma City, a giant government cover-up became obvious.
Exposing the 'Terror Fraud': One Day in Birmingham The terror outrages in Britain last year may not have been the work of “Muslim extremists”.
Fake Terrorism: The Road to Dictatorship Throughout history "terrorist" acts have been carefully staged and used to further the power of the ruling elite.
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?ID=2812   (2394 words)

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