It is the heaviest bombing Baghdad has suffered in more than 20 years of war. All across the city last night, massive explosions shook the ground. To my right, the Ministry of Armaments Procurement - a long colonnaded building looking much like the façade of the Pentagon - coughed fire as five missiles crashed into the concrete.
In an operation officially intended to create "shock and awe’’, shock was hardly the word for it. The few Iraqis in the streets around me - no friends of Saddam I would suspect - cursed under their breath.
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