1.   Villages were blasted, buildings and homes gutted, everything bullet pocked, shrapnel torn, shell blackened.

2.   Army forces on Monday blasted the villages of Bukos and Osljane, north of the capital Pristina in the foothills of Cicavica Mountain.

3.   But photographers close to the front line later saw them blasting the village with rockets, as tanks also opened up on the houses thought sheltering the rebels.

4.   Dissidents blasted a village the day Northern Ireland voters elected a new legislature.

5.   Israeli helicopter gunships blasted a village in southern Lebanon on Friday, wounding a guerrilla commander and seven civilians, Lebanese security officials and witnesses said.

6.   One woman from Pervomayskaya looked on in anguish as Russian forces blasted her village.

7.   Russian aircraft and rockets blasted a village and other Chechen positions Tuesday and columns of troops and tanks moved to surround the capital of the defiant Caucasus Mountains region.

8.   From the nearby Russian-controlled town of Shali, planes could be seen repeatedly circling and blasting the village and surrounding hills.

9.   The SLA confirmed the attacks and said Israeli troops joined the militia in blasting villages north of the zone.

10.   Russian planes and artillery blasted rebel villages after the Chechens claimed to have repulsed two ground assaults on the western village of Yandi.