Tonight I am linking to a piece on the impact of cluster bombs in Lebanon. While the debate over Israeli - Arab politics is not what this blog is about, the humanitarian disaster in Lebanon is very real. Our friends at Mines Advisory Group are cleaning up the deadly mess... but here is a piece that goes into detail about cluster bombs on the ground now endangering innocent lives in Lebanon.

The young man pictured inside his house is named Hussein. He is five years old and he was on “time out” when this photo was taken at 4:30 pm on Thursday August 30, 2006. Hussein had just been reprimanded by his father. The reason for the chastisement was that Hussein had been outside playing in a field behind his house picking up “toys”. The bucket shown below is his proud collection of U.S. M-42 cluster bomblets. Some boys think the M-42’s are “lighters” or “batteries”. Some girls told this observer that they look like “perfume bottles”

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