From: "Phil Payne" 

> 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."

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