Iraqi civilian blogging from Baghdad
'We start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield [in Britain]. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first day of the bombing it worked precisely.... The images we saw on TV last night (not Iraqi, jazeera-BBC-Arabiya) were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were on fire. The only thing I could think of was “why does this have to happen to Baghdad”. As one of the buildings I really love went up in a huge explosion I was close to tears.'

Iraqi civilian blogging from Baghdad
'We start counting the hours from the moment one of the news channels report that the B52s have left their airfield [in Britain]. It takes them around 6 hours to get to Iraq. On the first day of the bombing it worked precisely.... The images we saw on TV last night (not Iraqi, jazeera-BBC-Arabiya) were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were on fire. The only thing I could think of was “why does this have to happen to Baghdad”. As one of the buildings I really love went up in a huge explosion I was close to tears.'