9.20.2006

Horse gone? Let's shut the door.

Independent Online Edition > Americas:
Bomb disposal experts are working around the clock to clear the lethal leftovers after Israel fired 1.2 million bomblets in the last three days of the war [with Lebanon]. The pods containing the 650 bomblets, which burst apart at a pre-determined height, have a failure rate of up to 30 per cent, leaving clear evidence of their American origin.
That's somewhere around 360,000 unexploded bomblets littering the landscape. Now we're thinking - or somebody's thinking - maybe we shouldn't sell them any more.

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