"It was when we started bombing."
"Arif was 7 when the Russians started bombing," she said of her son, now 26.
The United States could not start bombing while its allies were exposed in a neighboring country.
So they started bombing.
"The thing that has scared me most was when they started bombing," said Chelsea Meyers, 11 years old.
Things worsened when Al-quaeda started bombing.
The Government started aerial bombing and naval shelling of these areas.
And the only way to do that, they argue, is to start selective bombing.
"If they start bombing, a war will simply begin," Mr. Seleznyov said.
The mission was evacuated when the agreement collapsed and NATO prepared to start bombing.