Clinton Can't Escape Her Past
Israel Refuses to give locations of cluster bombs it dropped in Lebanon to UN de-miners
"Deminers clearing Israeli-dropped cluster bombs in south Lebanon are turning up an average of 10 new sites per month, while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.
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The UN estimates that Israel rained down around four million bomblets - most US-supplied - onto south Lebanon in the last three days of its 2006 July war with Hezbollah fighters, when a ceasefire had already been agreed."
"On 6 September 2006 the US Senate had a rollcall vote on an amendment on the FY 07 DOD budget, the Feinstein-Leahy Amendment, which would restrict the usage of cluster bombs in civilian areas throughout the world. The amendment failed."
Hillary Clinton voted against it.
Two days later the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon formally ended.
"U.N. officials estimate that the Israeli military fired 90 percent of the bombs during the last 72 hours of the conflict..."
"Forty percent of the bomblets dropped on Lebanon failed to detonate on impact, according to a Mine Action Coordination Center fact sheet."
"Cluster bombs leave ‘toys’ that kill children."
"Deminers clearing Israeli-dropped cluster bombs in south Lebanon are turning up an average of 10 new sites per month, while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.
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The UN estimates that Israel rained down around four million bomblets - most US-supplied - onto south Lebanon in the last three days of its 2006 July war with Hezbollah fighters, when a ceasefire had already been agreed."
"On 6 September 2006 the US Senate had a rollcall vote on an amendment on the FY 07 DOD budget, the Feinstein-Leahy Amendment, which would restrict the usage of cluster bombs in civilian areas throughout the world. The amendment failed."
Hillary Clinton voted against it.
Two days later the Israeli war of aggression on Lebanon formally ended.
"U.N. officials estimate that the Israeli military fired 90 percent of the bombs during the last 72 hours of the conflict..."
"Forty percent of the bomblets dropped on Lebanon failed to detonate on impact, according to a Mine Action Coordination Center fact sheet."
"Cluster bombs leave ‘toys’ that kill children."
posted by nolocontendere at 6:35 PM
2 Comments:
... Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist ...
Sounds like they don't want to give the UN anything substantial that can be used against them. Either that or they simply don't care how many people in Lebanon get killed by the dang things.
From my understanding nick the bomblets that were hurriedly shipped over and quickly dropped were an older variety that were were known to malfunction, and were either deliberately used for future civilian casualties or just used up to make room for more advanced units.
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