Cluster Bombs: A War's Perilous Aftermath

The US State Department said last week that Israel "likely could have" misused American-supplied cluster bombs by peppering civilian areas from which Israel says Hezbollah was operating. Similar Israeli usage in 1982 led to a six-year ban of US sales of the controversial weapon, though analysts do not expect such a sanction of the US ally today. But as UN-organized de-mining teams toil across olive groves and tobacco farms to destroy what they call an "unprecedented" concentration of the controversial cluster bombs, the casualties continue to mount.

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