US pounds Iraqi targets with massive bombs

The US Air Force used some of the largest weapons in its inventory to attack targets in central Iraq as part of the escalating crackdown on suspected guerrilla strongholds.

Two 2,000 pound satellite-guided bombs were dropped last night near Baqouba, 30 miles north-east of Baghdad on “camps suspected to have been used for bomb-making,” said Major Gordon Tate, a spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division.