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  • Thoughts caromed inside him, this way and that, strafings launched in a fight to the death, pounding his eyes and turning the taste in his mouth to dead metal.

    An Old Sweet Song 2010

  • MCINTYRE (voice-over): The bombings and strafings seen on this aerial video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Haditha was a hotbed of insurgent activity back on that day, November 19, 2005.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007 2007

  • PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The bombings and strafings seen on this aerial video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Haditha was a hotbed of insurgent activity back on that day, November 19th, 2005.

    CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2007 2007

  • JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The bombings and strafings seen on this aerial video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Haditha was a hotbed of insurgent activity back on that day, November 19, 2005.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007 2007

  • 'Try and go slow, sir, we've had three strafings this morning.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Comannder Hughes ordered the abandon ship drill, and the civilians and sailor survivors were cast adrift, still victims of Japanese strafings.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Comannder Hughes ordered the abandon ship drill, and the civilians and sailor survivors were cast adrift, still victims of Japanese strafings.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Aside from incendiary aerial bombardments of every Japanese city, repeated smaller atrocities were common: shooting of prisoners, torture, lifeboat strafings, attacks on hospitals, civilian abuse, wounded buried alive, mutilated corpses.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • I sensed my friend Jeffrey, the one whom I loved, but he hadn't been down here in years, was long dead in fact, put in the grave by the eons of strafings he'd laid on himself; and perhaps what I'd felt was merely a whisper that brushed past my ear—yet I could have sworn that it said we would meet on a pier on a cold windswept day at the end of a dream down the road.

    Ten Dreams That Raised Some Of the Dead Robert Crisman 2010

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