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  • n  shooting artillery shells

  • It came at a personal price: in 1997 his eldest son was killed by Israeli shellfire in southern Lebanon after Nasrallah encouraged him to go there and fight.
  • In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their .
  • Most of its buildings are knocked flat, as though by dynamite, or pockmarked by shellfire.
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  • Libyan oil crisis swells as militias refuse to end shutdown
    TRIPOLI, Libya, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Libya's battered oil industry crisis appears to be escalating again, with armed separatist militants who have shut down vital facilities in the east since July now seeking to sell oil from rebel-controlled terminals, while the navy drove off with shellfire a Maltese-flagged tanker that tried to illegally load at one of the blockaded ports.
    Jan. 8, 2014 - UPI

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