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Experts: 10 Years Needed To Clear Lebanon of Cluster Bombs

HeadlineSep 05, 2006

International experts are predicting it could take Lebanon 10 years to clear the country of unexploded cluster bombs used by Israel. The UN estimates 100,000 cluster bomblets that failed to explode still lie in Lebanon. Most of the cluster bombs were fired in the final 72 hours of the war. On Monday, Amnesty International called for the United Nations to open an investigation into Israel’s use of cluster bombs.

  • Amnesty International’s Claudio Cordone: “Obviously the use of cluster bombs in heavily inhabited areas, with the consequences we’ve described–that is the bombs remaining effectively land mines and so on–amounts, in our view, to the use of an indiscriminate weapon.”
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