[Vision2020] [CORRECTED] Unexploded Munitions in Vietnam

[Tom Hansen]

From:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_bomb

 

In Vietnam, people are still being killed as a result of cluster bombs and
other objects left by the US military. Estimates range up to 300 per year.

            

In post-war Kosovo unexploded cluster bomblets caused more civilian deaths
than landmines.

            

In Lebanon as many as 70% of the bomblets dropped may not have detonated. 16
have been killed and 100 civilians were injured by unexploded bomblets since
the August 14, 2006 ceasefire in the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
Unofficial reports indicate that the US State Department is inquiring into
whether Israeli use of US-made cluster bombs during the conflict conformed
with the terms of agreements between them as to the conditions of the
munition's use. It is confirmed that Hezbollah also used clusters. Israel
has expressed readiness to cooperate. In August 2006, the UN's Mine Action
Coordination Center in Tyre, Lebanon, raised an alarm over the post-conflict
impact on returning civilians of unexploded cluster bombs used by Israel in
village areas. Israel immediately after the cease-fire gave UNIFIL maps
indicating the likely locations of unexploded ordnance, to aid the
international attempt to clear these areas and avoid injury to the
population. Furthermore, immediately after the cease-fire the it distributed
warning notices to the residents in the areas of warfare, and recommended
that they wait a few days before returning to the south until the UNIFIL
forces were deployed there and the area had been cleared of unexploded
ordnance.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

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safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the other, body thoroughly used
up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a ride!'"

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