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Titolo: Baluardo di democrazia 037

quelli autografati "with love" dai bambini israeliani.
Cosa della quale il caro *FESSO* di un Sasha ha le prove ma non le vuole
mostrare al mondo per non rendersi piu' ridicolo di quanto gia' non
faccia. :)
Tra l'altro quel documento di HRW si dimentica di indicare che la
"failure rate" per simili proiettili (che vuol dire ordigni non esplosi
che restano sul terreno) e' stimata dal DoD USA al 2% (aggiornato
all'Ottobre 2004 rispetto al precedente del 2000). 
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Unexploded cluster bombs prompt fear and fury in returning refugees.
Four dead as mine-clearing teams fear death toll from Israeli weapons
could soar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1854714,00.html
Declan Walsh in Yahmour
Monday August 21, 2006
The Guardian
A child plays in the streets of Aitta Shaaba, a village riddled with
cluster bombs
A child plays in the streets of Aitta Shaaba, a village riddled with
cluster bombs. Photograph: Scott Peterson/Getty
 
When the guns went silent in Aitta Shaab, a war-ravaged village close to
the Israeli border, three children skipped through the rubble looking for
a little fun.
Hurdling over lumps of crushed concrete and dodging spikes of twisted
metal, Sukna, Hassan and Merwa, aged 10 to 12, paused before a curious
object. Sukna picked it up. The terrifying blast flung her to the ground,
thrusting metal shards into her liver. Hassan's abdomen was cut open.
Merwa was hit in the leg and arm.
"We thought it was just a little ball," said Hassan with a hoarse whisper
in the intensive care ward at Tyre's Jabal Amel hospital. In the next bed
Sukna, a ventilator cupped to her mouth and a tangle of tubes from her
arms, said even less.
Her mother watched anxiously. "The Israelis wanted to defeat Hizbullah,"
said Najah Saleh, 40. "But what did these children ever do to them?"
Israel may be pulling out of Lebanon but its soldiers leave behind a
lethal legacy of this summer's 34-day war. The south is carpeted with
unexploded cluster bombs, innocuous looking black canisters, barely larger
than a torch battery, which pose a deadly threat to villagers stumbling
back to their homes.
Mine-clearing teams scrambling across the region have logged 89 cluster
bomb sites so far, and expect to find about 110 more. Meanwhile,
casualties are being taken into hospital - four dead and 21 injured so
far. Officials fear the toll could eventually stretch into the thousands.
"We already had a major landmine problem from previous Israeli invasions,
but this is far worse," said Chris Clark of the UN Mine Action
Coordination Centre in Tyre, standing before a map filled with flags
indicating bomb sites.
Cluster bombs are permitted under international law, but UN and human
rights officials claim Israel violated provisions forbidding their use in
urban areas. "We're finding them in orange plantations, on streets, in
cars, near hospitals - pretty much everywhere," Mr Clark said.
The bombs are ejected from artillery shells in mid-flight, showering a
wide area with explosions that can kill within 10 metres (33ft). But up to
a quarter fail to explode, creating minefields that kill civilians once
the war is over. A decades-old campaign to ban them has failed.
Israel turned to cluster bombs in the last week of the war, apparently
frustrated at the failure of conventional weapons to rout Hizbullah
fighters from their foxholes. Mine-clearance teams are finding evidence
pointing to their provenance: the US, the world's largest cluster bomb
manufacturer, which gave Israel $2.2bn (£1.2bn) in military aid last year.
In Nabatiye, 15 people were injured in just one day along a bomb-strewn
road. In Tibnin, 210 bombs were found around the town hospital. "That's
about as inappropriate [a use of cluster bombs] as you can get," Mr Clark
said.
In Yahmour, a hilly frontline village that has become a complex urban
minefield, minesweepers from the UK-based Mine Action Group have cleared
the main roads and some house entrances. But danger lurks everywhere. One
elderly woman lost her leg in an explosion last Monday as she swept her
yard.
Now holes pock the road, yellow tape appears around fields and houses, and
residents tip-toe around the "grape bombs". Ilham Tarhini, 45, stood at
her front door appealing for help. After returning from refuge in Syria
three days ago she found tiny bomblets poking from the soil of her garden
of olive trees. From where she was standing she could count eight: "I'm
afraid to step into the streets."
But the most volatile payload sat in Jamil Zuhoor's living room. During
the war an unexploded rocket packed with bomblets punched through his
front wall, skidding to a halt before a chest of drawers. "I can't see us
moving back in here for another year at least," he said, shutting the door
of his shattered house.
The UN is appealing for money and minesweepers. With such help it hopes
the worst-hit areas can be cleared within six months, Mr Clarke said. But
until then residents live in fear.
Many share the blame equally between Israel and the US. "It's like we are
living in a prison," said Aisa Hussain, 38, a Yahmour resident who has
ordered his children to remain inside his house.
Strolling through the village he pointed to yet another tiny black
canister perched under a tree. "You see what America is sending us," he
said bitterly. "This is their idea of democracy."
Cluster bombs were first used by the Germans in the second world war but
have become a standard weapon for many countries, including Britain,
France and Italy.
The most popular delivery device, the American-made M26 rocket, scatters
644 bomblets over 20,000 square metres. Under test conditions up to 23% of
bomblets from the M26 failed to explode on impact. The United States keeps
370,000 such rockets in stock.
The M26 inflicted hundreds of civilian casualties in Iraq in 2003, says
Human Rights Watch, over populated areas. The British army used M26s in
the 1991 Gulf war
The US halted cluster bomb exports to Israel in 1982 after indiscriminate
use against civilians but rescinded the ban in 1988. Belgium is the only
country in the world that has banned cluster bombs.
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colpisce il Libano in ritardo, seppure con il suo risicato 2%...
L'articolo cita il MACC di Tyre come fonte?
Verifichiamo :)
http://www.maccsl.org/
http://www.maccsl.org/reports/Quarterly%20Reports/Quarterly%202006/Qtly%20Report%20Jan%20Mar%2006.pdf
Questo e' il rapporto dei primi 3 mesi del 2006. Cioe' da ben prima
dell'inizio del conflitto
Clearance Operations Progress
In South Lebanon             This Quarter  Year To Date  Total To Date
Anti-Personnel Mines Destroyed     129          129          56,969
Anti-Tank Mines Destroyed           30           30           1,738
Unexploded Ordnance Destroyed       51           51           4,561
Se addirittura guardiamo l'annual report del 2005 abbiamo
http://www.maccsl.org/reports/Annual%20Reports/Annual%20Report%202005/AR%2005%20English.pdf
Clearance Operations Progress
In South Lebanon                   Year 2005        Total To Date
                                                   (Since May 2002)
Anti-Personnel Mines Destroyed        358               56,840
Anti-Tank Mines Destroyed              27                1,708
Unexploded Ordnance Destroyed          90                4,510
E gli israeliani non c'erano ne sparavano in Libano.
Affermare quindi che quei bambini sono morti per colpa di muniziamento
israeliano e che gli israeliani abbiano usato cluster bomb, sei ben
lontano dal poterlo dimostrare, povero *FESSO* di un Sasha.
-Stefano

 lontano dal poterlo dimostrare, povero *FESSO* di un Sasha.
Quindi se le statistiche 2006 da 0 (zero) vittime arrivano a 4 morti e 21
feriti per il decessi non è una fatto degno di nota.
IMHO questi 25 sono vittime del rinnovato slancio del baluardo democratico
a sparare munizionamenti a grappolo e non ho coglioni di riscrivere per
chi, come decessi, non vuol leggere. Mi limito a citare il post "Per amor
di precisione, cluster-democrazia" dove trovate link e le foto.
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 back to their homes.
Didascalia della foto allegata.
OHMOR, LEBANON - AUGUST 21: An unexploded cluster bomb identified by
members of the Mine Advisory Group (MAG) rests in a backyard garden August
21, 2006 in Yohmor, Lebanon. MAG is clearing areas of dangerous unexploded
submunitions in southern Lebanon that came under Isreali attack during
incursions to dislodge Hezbollah fighters. According to the U.N., some 145
bomblets litter 10 identified areas where refugees are beginning to return
to their homes. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
Guarda l'immagine cliccando 
http://attach.mynl.it/img?id=MzgxOQ
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leggere.
...disse il *COGLIONE* che non sa leggere nemmeno le paginette che lui
stesso cita... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

Peterson/Getty Images)
Peccato che non dica chi e quando le avrebbe contate una per una :)
-Stefano

Hai scritto una serie di cose inutili. Calmati che forse capisci.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/m483.htm
[...]The projectiles are painted olive drab with yellow markings. A row of
yellow diamonds is stenciled approximately 89 millimeters (3.50 inches) to
the rear of the nose of the projectile.[...] 
in foto è ritratto uno dei fattorini addetti alla consegna.
Guarda l'immagine cliccando 
http://attach.mynl.it/img?id=MzgyMA
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Calmati che forse capisci.
Nel tuo caso invece e' proprio impossibile :)
*LOL*
Allora?  Quando dimostrerai che quei proiettili sono stati sparati
contro il Libano? :)
-Stefano