of weapons known to endanger civilians and
its own soldiers. The weapons in question are cluster bombs, and
the piece details how unexploded bomblets--large quantities of
small explosives that are packed into bombs, rockets or artillery
shells--often end up scattered on city streets, where they can
This morning a senior British briefer said the UK had no cluster bombs. He
was later contradicted by his deputye who said they did, but only for use
on military targets. They have been used in Basra! How safe is that?
Chris Burford
London
At 2003-04-03 21:19 +0100, I wrote:
This morning a senior British briefer said the UK had no cluster bombs. He
was later contradicted by his deputye who said they did, but only for use
on military targets. They have been used in Basra! How safe is that?
Well at least they are embarrassed. Small
The use of cluster bombs in a city would be devastating. All this talk about
precision and smart bombs but in Basra obviously the situation is quite
different. It may be UK bombers that are involved. Cluster bombs spread
bomblets over a wide area that explode sending shrapnel in all directions
It seems as if not only cluster bombs but also napalm is being used. The US
is just adding to the amount of unexploded mines in effect that litter
Afghanistan. Casualties will continue long after the conflict ends.
Collateral damage that will continue infefinitely...
Cheers, Ken Hanly
U.S
BBC World Service have said that the US military have made a broadcast telling
the people in Afghanistan not to mistake cluster bombs for food packages. Both
are the same colour -yellow.
Karl Carlile
Be free to visit the web site of the Communist Global Group at
http://homepage.eircom.net
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America Cluster Bombs Iraq
By William M. Arkin
Special to Washingtonpost.com
Monday, February 26, 2001; 12:00 AM
News media reports last week that 50 percent of the weapons fired at
Iraqi military installations missed their so-called aimpoints
obscures a more disturbing facet of the Feb. 16
While cluster bombs are not specifically banned under
international conventions, landmines are. However the US together
with Turkey refuse to sign on to the convention. However, the
indicscriminate use of weapons is forbidden as well as the use of
indiscriminate weapons.
The failure rate
I have been searching the net in vain to find any site that
discusses DU reinforced shells and cluster bombs as banned
weapons. There are many sites that discuss DU and even some that
discuss cluster bombs and some say that they are banned, but none
give a reference to verify this.. A few posts
The Independent (London)
June 27, 1997, Friday
Secret war still claims lives in Laos; Twenty-five years after US raids
stopped, unexploded bombs continue to kill and maim
By Matthew Chance Huap Huan Province, Laos
Numbed to the danger around him, a Lao father slowly tills his field as an
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