South Lebanon littered with war's lethal leftovers

[tocqueville]

By Michael Winfrey
Wed Aug 16, 12:41 PM ET

TEBNIN, Lebanon (Reuters) - More than 100 deadly black cylinders, not much bigger than large household batteries, litter the main road of this shattered village.

They are unexploded cluster bombs fired by Israel in the last days of its war with Hizbollah guerrillas.

At least a dozen of them lie near the entrance of Tebnin's only hospital, a shrapnel-sprayed building hit during an Israeli bombardment that wounded 15 people, according to its administrator.

"Dangerous? This is a village filled with hundreds of unexploded bombs," said Frank Masche, technical field manager of the Mines Advisory Group, a U.N.-backed unit cleaning up the lethal leftovers of the five-week war.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060816/wl_nm/mideast_lebanon_bombs_dc

[don954]

1. lovely.. war, the gift that keeps on giving...

add to this the white phosphorus and DU bombs used, and we have the makings of a really pissed population...

[truth2power]

2. "designed to puncture tank armor"...

Can someone please tell me if Hezbollah was using tanks during this war? If not...what was the supposed purpose for the Israelis dropping these things? Because they can, I suppose.

[tocqueville]

4. nobody was using tanks except the Israeli nt

[k_jerome]

3. I thought you were going to say "Hezbollah" nt.

[Truthiness Inspector]

6. LOL agree n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. It's similar to the US's use of Depleted Uranium - it'll keep on killing

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long after the fighting stops

From the posted article:

So they're just lying there, waiting for someone to come and trip the mechanism," he said, standing over a bomb in the center of the road. "When one goes off, anything within 15 metres (47 feet) is going to be dead."

RAIN OF DESTRUCTION

The U.N. estimates Israel fired 2,600 artillery rounds, missiles and bombs into Lebanon each day of the five-week war, which killed more than 1,100 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis.

If 10 percent remains unexploded, that means there could be around 8-9,000 deadly ordnance waiting to go off, Gilbert said.
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Lovely people the Israelis got running their country

just feckin luvly

(sigh)

[breakaleg]

7. How many more casualties will we see? n/t