Colin King, author of Jane's explosive ordnance disposal guide and a
British army bomb disposal expert in the 1991 Gulf war, said yesterday:
"Cluster bombs have a very bad reputation, which they
deserve."
FROM
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,929368,00.html
Adam Ingram, the armed forces minister, has said in a written
parliamentary reply that British Challenger 2 tanks in southern Iraq have
fired depleted uranium shells. "The post-conflict administrators of
Iraq will be responsible for monitoring DU levels in the environment and
cordoning off and decontaminating sites of penetrator impacts," he
told the Labour MP Llewellyn Smith.
Widespread Use of Cluster Bombs
Sparks Outrage
Common Dreams - 5 Apr 2003
... hard to use these weapons knowing exactly who you are going to target," said Richard
Lloyd ... Although many are unleashed as so-called cluster bombs ...
Allies accused over cluster bomb attacks
The Age, Australia - 4 Apr 2003
... US B-52 bombers had for the first time dropped six new CBU-105 bombs - guided 500-kilogram
cluster bombs - on Iraqi tanks defending Baghdad. Richard Lloyd, ...
Cluster bombs 'safer than unguided missiles'
News24, South Africa - 4 Apr 2003
... Cluster bombs frequently killed civilians, added Richard Lloyd, director of British
group Landmine Action, pointing to a US attack on the central Iraqi town of ...
British defence secretary defends use of cluster bombs
SpaceDaily - 4 Apr 2003
... Cluster bombs frequently killed civilians, added Richard Lloyd, director of British
group Landmine Action, pointing to a US attack on the central Iraqi town of ...
