>>>And just to add... the Israeli are using cluster bombs:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5213026.stm>>
>>Oh dear. Oh, shame. AFAIK they are not proscribed weapons. Human Rights Watch can wring their hands all they want, but they are neither a military organization - with understanding of military matters - nor involved in the fighting.
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>Should they be? Or are you saying that warfare is too important to be overseen by civilians?
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>Well, here's a few from other civilian organizations which don't know what they're saying:
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=7758&Cr=iraq&Cr1=relief>
http://www.un.org/icty/briefing/PB070600.htm (you'll have to search this one a bit - and I'm still cursing myself for not saving the picture of one of them beauties exploding in front of a shop in downtown Niš 1999)
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusnewsiraq.asp?NewsID=113&sID= (also long, search)
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=6&sID=4 (also long, search)
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http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/1999/19990305.eritrea.brf.html>
http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/1999/19990929.macbrf.doc.html>
>And this is just from the UN's website. Google "cluster bombs site:un.org".
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>>Meanwhile, unguided rockets packed with steel bearings strike me as the greater of two weevils.
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>I've seen where the guided ones hit a pig farm and the neighboring houses, a bridge with a passenger train on it (the video from rocket's nose camera was made available), lawn between two five-story appartment buildings.
Unguided rockets that carry a total payload of 40 pounds including the ball bearings.
Seems to me the metal itself of a 1000lb guided rocket/missile/whatever has more weight and breaks up far more thana bunch of ball bearings.
Guided rockets seem to be poorly guided too, making them as bad as "unguided" rockets.
The terrorists have apparently flown 1150 rockets into Israel since hostilities started. Israel now has somewhere near 60 DEAD while there are over 450 DEAD in Lebanon. To me it says the Israelis are lucky they are facing UNguided rockets, and not guided ones.
