1.   By launching airstrikes, they would reward the aggression of the KLA, which, while not on the scale of the Serbs, is disturbing nonetheless.

2.   Congressional Democrats who once questioned bombing campaigns abroad have largely stood behind the president as he sent troops to Haiti and launched airstrikes in Bosnia and now Kosovo.

3.   He became a defender of the Taliban regime when the United States launched airstrikes last October, offering them troops and weapons.

4.   In recent days and weeks, the army has killed suspected militants and launched airstrikes on Palestinian government buildings.

5.   Israel launches airstrikes.

6.   Kirkpatrick said that NATO was justified in launching the airstrikes against Yugoslavia because of the heinous acts of its leaders, including ethnic cleansing.

7.   Mohammad Akram trudged through a rugged mountain pass to reach this dusty Pakistani border town the day before the United States launched airstrikes on his country.

8.   The same cannot be said of ordinary Russians, angered that NATO launched the airstrikes in defiance of Russia.

9.   The Saudi government has barred the United States from launching airstrikes against Afghanistan from Prince Sultan air base.

10.   The United Nations has not had inspectors working in Iraq since last December, when they were pulled out before the United States and Britain launched punitive airstrikes.