From the Sydney Morning Herald:

THE British Defence Secretary, Des Browne, has banned Britain's armed forces from using "dumb" cluster bombs, which have killed and maimed thousands of civilians.

Mr Browne has written to the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, and the International Development Secretary, Hilary Benn, saying his decision was taken on humanitarian grounds. He will tell MPs tomorrow that the ban will be immediate.

Human rights and aid organisations have been pressing for years for a ban on cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of unexploded bomblets over a wide area, posing a lethal threat to civilians, particularly children.

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Imbert Matthee of CPI recently penned an editorial in the Seattle Post Intelligencer on Cluster Bombs... you can read his article here.