What's unusual is the massive attack from the air.

NPR: Ambitious U.S.-Iraqi Air Assault Targets Insurgents

Later, when it was possible to attack it from the air, American bombers inflicted further damage.

BBC: UK

Spanish security services suspect their plan may have been to attack the British territory on the southernmost tip of Spain from the air.

CNN: Spain 'al Qaeda cell' may have targeted Gibraltar

The other is that, for either air force, predictions of the damage from an attack span a huge range.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear proliferation

He and colleagues, Peter Arnett and Bernard Shaw, were the only three journalists reporting from Baghdad on Jan. 16, 1991, the evening the allied air attack began Iraq's capital.

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