Who continues to manufacture cluster bombs?
What is the annual profit made from sale of cluster bombs?
Who holds stock in companies that make cluster bombs?
Who peddles them, and to what countries?
How many “innocent bystanders” (including children) have lost an arm or two, or a
leg or two by “mistake”?
Who refuses to sign the anti-cluster bomb agreements?

Until we are ready to face our own responsibility in the present state of human
affairs, and cease and desist, who are we to lean on the pious defense that we are
“saving lives”?

Mystery of Israel’s secret uranium bomb

Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon

By Robert Fisk

“10/28/06 “The Independent”——Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?

We know that the Israelis used American “bunker-buster” bombs on Hizbollah’s Beirut headquarters. We know that they drenched southern Lebanon with cluster bombs in the last 72 hours of the war, leaving tens of thousands of bomblets which are still killing Lebanese civilians every week. And we now know - after it first categorically denied using such munitions - that the Israeli army also used phosphorous bombs, weapons which are supposed to be restricted under the third protocol of the Geneva Conventions, which neither Israel nor the United States have signed.

But scientific evidence gathered from at least two bomb craters in Khiam and At-Tiri, the scene of fierce fighting between Hizbollah guerrillas and Israeli troops last July and August, suggests that uranium-based munitions may now also be included in Israel’s weapons inventory - and were used against targets in Lebanon. According to Dr Chris Busby, the British Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, two soil samples thrown up by Israeli heavy or guided bombs showed “elevated radiation signatures”. Both have been forwarded for further examination to the Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire for mass spectrometry - used by the Ministry of Defence - which has confirmed the concentration of uranium isotopes in the samples.”

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The CIA/Mossad connection(s) & their PROPAGANDA machines are alive & well in Libya…its that same ole method that they use in Iraq !!!

And when is the US & NATO going to hold up Israel for using cluster bombs, white phosphorus & other destructive weapons on civilians in Lebanon, Gaza…etc…?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15432.htm

Who invented the cluster bomb?

rico,

I would be that circumspect.  Israel clearly has a sophisticated intelligence capability and is surely going after targets.  That is not to say there isn’t massive collateral damage and plenty of war crimes.

I am simply trying to point out the abuse of the human language in such articles where depending on politics ones “terrorist” is another’s “freedom fighter”, or in this case ones “shock and awe precision bombing campaign” is another’s “indiscriminate bombing”. For example, I do not recall this “indiscriminate” adjective being used in the napalm and carpet bombing attacks the USA unleashed in the Vietnam War. But of course now that the USA is one of the only countries with newer laser guided weaponry that can be touted, this now becomes a MIC media talking point to promote its perpetual war machine.

Why don’t the rebels just encircle Gadhafi’s latrines with land mines? Even though he’s obviously constipated, he must take a crap once in a while.

From all the news items and comments one thing is certain——Libya serves as the prime example for the concept of the phrase, “the fog of war.”  Does anybody really know WTF is going on???

glider:

“I am quite sure that if Gadhafi’s forces are firing such weapons it is likely at what they regard to be “insurgents” rather than just to raise hell on the civilian population. “

Would that you were so circumspect regarding Israeli’s firing into Gaza.

...and the propaganda machine rolls on.

It is thought that city of Misrata in the East of capital Tripoli may prove to be a turning point in Battle for Libya for which Libya is finding that it may not afford to lose its grip on the city.

Reportedly the western supported rebel forces with the full cover given by the NATO air force have successfully infiltrated the inner core locations of city and Libyanground forces are busy mopping them out.

NATO is continuously bombarding the out skirt of Misrata with her special efforts to deplete the Libyan forces. Reportedly, the eastern area of city is totally demolished in the clashes.

In Tripoli, NATO is also seen continuously bombarding all possible military targets like military air bases, ammo dumps and other military and civil civic installations. With Libyan air force out and tank movements restricted only to nights it is observed that life in Tripoli has seriously hampered and defiant Libyan Leader- Ghadafi is being starved to submission.

Ghadafi is although a dictator but he is an odd man out as he did not opt to be western chosen and installed member of ‘The Arab dictators club’ which was once setup in Arab lands after President Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt was defeated in Suez war in 1956 and US president Eisenhower as a pacesetter for Arab world had passed the orders: ‘Egypt will keep the Suez canal open and the installed Monarchs and autocrats princes in the Arab states may only be allowed to police the rouge Arab streets with their police Head Quarters in Washington.’

That was 1956 and it comes today; the masses find themselves totally enslaved under the rules of tyrannies and their entire seas and land remain infested with fleets of naval ships and western forces dotting the entire Arab lands with their ships and bases. No one could bring any change in the status quo in the aforesaid orders. Suez Canal remains open like highways and dictators installed are availing their lifelong terms except that their deaths may bring change of their faces.

It is thought that with the UN resolution in hand of NATO forces helping the Libyan rebels to stay pitched against Ghadafi. Whereas the Libyan war has altogether diverted the attention of Arab masses; killing of Ghadafi who is made scapegoat in this entire plan may also kill the popular uprising in Arab World and thus it may save the western installed—The Arab Dictators Club.

In my view; anyone who possesses the ability to sample the winds blowing in the west may not have his/ her opinion other than on the same lines.

While a disturbing report I am quite sure that if Gadhafi’s forces are firing such weapons it is likely at what they regard to be “insurgents” rather than just to raise hell on the civilian population. That is not to say that it will not cause the later, but for the USA to make this claim is the pot calling the kettle black.