Only a few monks were able to remain to serve in the church, while the monastery itself became a weapons depot.
"I could say the same about eliminating your weapons depot."
Then an airstrike seemed to set the very hills on fire, perhaps by hitting a weapons depot.
The administrative offices for the new fire academy were set up in what was once the main fire station of the weapons depot.
The fort was later used as a weapons depot and eventually transferred to the state property.
The military said it had also struck a Zarqawi safe house and a weapons depot.
It suddenly explains the attack on the weapons depot a few months ago.
Then there'd been an attack on a Pakistani weapons depot, where something had been stolen, but no one knew what.
More recently, it has been used as a weapons depot for a local disarmament drive.
Last Friday, a team of experts arrived from Washington with the information about the weapons depots.