• Coalition commanders have long thought Tikrit could be the scene of a last stand by Saddam loyalists, but they will be hoping that, as in Baghdad, resistance there will crumble under the weight of coalition bombs and bullets.

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  • Mid-return, a series of bombs detonate under the field and the turf of the football stadium collapses piece by piece behind him.

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  • The Zazis and Afzali, a Muslim cleric and funeral director from the New York borough of Queens, are among several people under investigation as part of a plot to detonate bombs in the United States, according to the Justice Department.

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  • He would say it when he went in his Humvee into the neighborhoods of eastern Baghdad, where more and more roadside bombs were exploding now that the surge was under way, killing soldiers, taking off arms, taking off legs, causing concussions, exploding ear drums, leaving some soldiers angry and others vomiting and others in sudden tears.

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  • In the wake of the car bombs, both men could come under greater pressure to take action.

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  • Mr. SHADID: The Israeli officials have made the point that cluster bombs are not banned under international law, which is correct.

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  • The issue threatens a 1994 agreement, under which North Korea promised not to build nuclear bombs, in return for two nuclear reactors provided by a consortium including America.

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  • Its earlier plutonium production is thought to have produced enough fissile material for at least a couple of bombs, before it was frozen under a 1994 deal that involved compensation in the form of oil deliveries, chiefly from America, and the provision of two western-designed nuclear-power reactors, chiefly by South Korea and Japan.

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  • Under assault from Algerian forces, the militants moved on the main complex, armed with missiles, mortars and bombs for their three explosives experts, Sellal said.

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  • Iranian leaders say it's their right to do that under the global treaty governing nuclear technology because they say they are pursuing this program to produce electricity, not bombs.

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  • Determined men, they say, will try to dig under it, or hang-glide over it, or lob home-made mortar bombs at targets on the other side.

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  • It might be seeing if it can frighten the government into giving further ground, particularly in the delicate constitutional area, while continuing, at least for a while, to keep its bombs under wraps.

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