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For three days, Bani Walid has come under withering Grad rocket barrages.

It is even possible that Assur-bani-pal himself was the sovereign against whom Manasseh rebelled and before whom he was brought.

According to Assur-bani-pal all the western lands were inflamed by the revolt of his brother Samas-sum-ukin.

Assur-bani-pal purified the city and celebrated a "service of reconciliation," but did not venture to "take the hands" of Bel.

Hence the sudden collapse of Assyria when drained of its fighting population in the age of Assur-bani-pal.

Next followed the contest with Elam, in spite of the efforts of Assur-bani-pal to ward it off.