The US military documents released last month detail civilian deaths, friendly-fire episodes and other ground-level incidents.
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Here was this big hole in the ground--fire coming out of the ground, buildings like stubs, body parts being carried out by firefighters and police officers.
The week-long fighting in Qusair intensified early on Saturday, when activists reported heavy bombardments, including two ground-to-ground missiles and an air strike as well as artillery and rocket fire.
The fire started on the ground floor - which was reportedly used as a warehouse - and quickly spread through the building.
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"We cannot call what's happening on the ground a full cease-fire, " he told reporters.
For a change, it's the Bosnian Serbs who are most interested in a cease-fire, because they are loosing ground.
In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to match his promises of a cease-fire with "action on the ground" and exert greater control over militant Palestinian factions.
For the first time, on-the-ground soldiers will be able to fire at a hidden opponent without having to go up the chain of command to ask for a precision air strike and waste precious time doing so.
Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.
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The fire spread quickly through the two-storey building, damaging the roof, ground and first floors of the house, along with cars parked on the driveway.
The crash injured two other people aboard the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet and one person on the ground, South Bend Assistant Fire Chief John Corthier said late Sunday.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security advisor, says the U.S. has to help negotiate a cease-fire if it wants to get a strong international force on the ground.
It is not known at this stage how the fire started, but swailing - a controlled burning of overgrown heathland to clear the ground and encourage new growth - can with prior approval be carried out on the moor until the second week of April.
The new Long Island City facility is being built from the ground up with state-of-the-art security systems, fire protection and climate controls.
When asked last year about the rules of engagement for tear gas, he told the BBC that police in America are trained not to fire head-high and to either arc the canister into the air or roll it on the ground.
"In essence, the live-fire ranges are protection for the tortoises, " he said, looking at a patch of ground where bullets often rain down but rarely hit the burrowing reptile.
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