From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Phil Payne wrote:
>> http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_4206520
>>
>> The bombs are especially dangerous because of their high failure rates,
>> leaving hundreds of the small bombs unexploded on the ground, said Marc
>> Garlasco, senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch. The artillery
>> shells used by the Israeli military in Lebanon delivered 88 bomblets per
>> shell, and have an official failure rate of up to 14 percent, though
>> mine-cleanup groups operating in southern Lebanon say the failure rate can
>> reach up to 40 percent.
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Mideast_Unexploded_Weapons.html
>
> "Outside the hospital in Tibnin, U.N. mine clearing teams collected dozens
> of bomblets that they later exploded. Clark said Tibnin was especially
> dangerous. He estimated that 80 percent of all the bomblets that fell there
> had not exploded."
>
>

If so those are area denial weapons & that is dodgy in the extreme.


Adam

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