1.   Lebed said it would be foolish to think that anybody could simply turn a war off after more than a year of fierce aerial bombardment.

2.   Israel retaliated with a fierce bombardment of guerrilla bases and of Lebanese villages and installations as it tried to force Lebanon to rein in the attackers.

3.   Israel retaliated with a fierce bombardment of guerrilla bases and of Lebanese villages and installations as it tried to force Lebanon to rein in the rocketers.

4.   Junta leaders also object to the overwhelming presence of Nigerian soldiers in the peacekeeping army because of months of fierce bombardments by Nigerian troops seeking to dislodge the junta.

5.   Russian troops unleashed a fierce bombardment on the Chechen capital on Wednesday, going ahead with plans to retake the city from separatists while terrified civilians tried to flee.

6.   Since Thursday, Srebrenica has again been under fierce Serb bombardment, following a number of skirmishes and commando-style attacks by both rebel Serb and government forces.

7.   Twenty minutes later, the Russian Grad and Uragan rockets slammed into the city in a fierce bombardment.

8.   Northern forces loyal to President Ali Abdallah Saleh pounded the airport with rockets on Saturday in a fierce new bombardment of Aden which killed seven civilians.

9.   Northern Yemeni forces unleashed a fierce new bombardment of Aden Saturday, pounding the airport with rockets and killing seven civilians in the besieged city.

10.   Russian artillery unleashes a fierce bombardment of Grozny as refugees pour out ahead of the deadline.