He distinguished himself during an American assault on the barricades.

The group has called for a boycott of the elections to protest the American assault on Falluja.

Almost all Husayba's estimated 20,000 residents fled in the face of the American assault.

The next morning the news was full of the American military assault on Panama.

Similarly, he said, three American assaults on the approaches to Nasiriya had been beaten back.

Their return now, diplomats hope, would make an American assault unnecessary.

In the view of the Bahraini ruler, the American assaults were, if anything, too restrained.

The second time around, his top aide only made a brief televised declaration criticizing the much more violent American assault.

Whether the American assault would come by sea, by land or by air, certainly no one here knows.

Europe's manufacturers are struggling hard against the American assault.