Show Trials (Nov 5th /07 Sunday Times)

“At the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. Britain dropped 100,000 cluster bombs. They were also used in Kososvo & by Israeli forces in Lebanon in summer 2005.Hilary Benn claimed that Cluster munitions are ‘essentially equivalent to Land Mines. The bomblets frequently fail to detonate leaving a deadly trap for passers by”“It is difficult then to see how we can hold so prominenta position against land mines yet somehow continueto advocate that the use of Cluster bombs is acceptable”