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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Israel dropped most cluster bombs in the last four days

If this charge is true, it is despicable beyond words.
"The outrageous fact is that nearly all of these munitions were fired in the last three to four days of the war," David Shearer, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon, told a news conference in Beirut. "Outrageous because by that stage the conflict had been largely resolved in the form of (U.N. Security Council) Resolution 1701," he said.

If true, I see two interpretations, either 1) The Israeli military "took the gloves off," or 2) it was an intentional effort to render southern Lebanon less habitable.

(350,000 bomblets were dropped across the country, and "30 to 40 percent of the bomblets they scattered over the south failed to explode at the time.")

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