Original sentence: The town was subjected to intense and horrific bombings meant to throw Saddam's Republican Guard out of the city and on April 13, 2003 several thousand US Marines and other foreign fighters aboard 300 armored vehicles converged on the town, meeting little or no resistance
Edited sentence: The town was subjected to intense and horrific terror bombings meant to throw Saddam's Republican Guard out of the city and on April 13, 2003 several thousand US Marines and other foreign fighters aboard 300 armored vehicles converged on the town, meeting little or no resistance