I can see a lot of debris, a lot of rubble in what is a civilian area. There is a considerable amount of damage.

a very serious situation

There was a tremendous explosion, … I can confirm that the top floor, the roof of that building where this array of antennas was situated, has been attacked.

That confirms our worst fears

I’m now seeing many detonations, … There’s one huge fireball nearby and I can see several plumes of smoke from still other detonations.

come down and give themselves up.

Jordan is now part of many countries that have suffered from the senseless violence of suicide bombers, whether it’s in European countries or in Arab and Muslim countries,

of their own free will.

blew me back from my window.

Officials were incredulous at the news. He was the lynchpin of the Syrian security apparatus for more than two decades, and was an important right-man both for the current president and his father, Hafez Assad.

This is a tremendously large crowd, the size of which is unprecedented in Lebanon’s modern history, … It is truly massive and cannot be ignored.

I can see body parts inside the crushed rubble, some of them are covered by green tarpaulins.

a scene of complete destruction.

I haven’t seen anything on this scale in Beirut since the dark days of the civil war,

I think what I’m seeing here is the largest civilian casualty toll since the beginning of NATO airstrikes. I saw quite clearly that these were civilian homes. … I saw body parts inside these buildings.

At least the top two stories are ablaze, and the bottom three or four stories ablaze. And in the middle, between the two sets of flames, lights are still burning.

Belgrade is now in darkness for as far as the eye can see.

There was not one checkpoint from the southern part of Mosul all the way down to Tikrit for about three hours of driving,

The gravitational effect of the decapitation of the regime in Baghdad 24 hours ago has rippled right up here to the north, as was the hope and the expectation of allied coalition commanders.