2001 / october / 31
"we apologize for the inconvenience..."
This is too awful, my god.
From
The Independent quoting US radio broadcast to the Afghani:
"In areas away from where food has been dropped, cluster bombs will also be dropped. The colour of these bombs is also yellow."
Apparently the 'dud-rate' of cluster bomblets is 5%. That's a lot of yellow bombs.
Dropped in the same area as the food.
From the usenet post I found this in:
"How ironic now, to remember the utter outrage in the US back in the
1980s, when the Soviet
butterfly mines
were mistaken for toys by Afghan children, with horrible results.
One word. Ouch.
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