In Hargeisa, where 50, 000 died during the war of re-independence, a Somali MiG jet used to bomb the city sits atop a poignant memorial.

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To some it might have seemed at odds with the new era of the atom bomb and jet-powered flight.

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They can also significantly reduce civilian casualties: a drone strike often replaces a big bomb dropped from a fighter jet.

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There, prosecutors studied where the bomb had been positioned and how its explosion had fatally damaged the jumbo jet.

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Ankara has tried not to escalate tensions over the past year in response to events that have included the deaths of Turkish citizens in cross-border artillery fire, a car bomb in February that killed 14 people on the border and the shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syrian antiaircraft guns.

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Jet charter bookings in the U.K. shot up 40% for the week following the foiled airliner bomb plot in London.

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