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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IS, Syrian Govt. Forces Using Cluster Bombs

2014-09-02

[AnNahar] Islamic State jihadists have used cluster munitions in Syria in at least one location and Syria's regime is continuing to use the widely banned weapon, Human Rights Watch
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
said Monday.

So watch where you step, guys.

The New York-based group, citing reports from local Kurdish officials and photographic evidence, said IS fighters had used cluster bombs on July 12 and August 14.

They were deployed in fighting around the town of Ayn al-Arab in Aleppo province, near the border with Turkey, in festivities between the jihadist group and local Kurdish fighters.

The group said it was believed to be the first time IS had used cluster bombs, and it was unclear how it had acquired them.

No doubt in the same way it acquired all its war materiel: by capturing from the overrun enemy.

You notice that never once does HRW actually condemn the ISIS for using cluster bombs. It just notes that they have them. Whereas if our allies had used them...

Cluster munitions contain dozens or hundreds of small bomblets and can be fired in rockets or dropped from the air.

They spread explosives over large areas and are indiscriminate in nature, often continuing to maim and kill long after the initial attack when previously unwent kaboom! bomblets detonate.

The weapons have been used by the Syrian government as well in its battle against rebels seeking to overthrow

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
HRW said Syrian government forces had used at least 249 cluster munitions since mid-2012, according to video and film evidence, witness accounts, and research.

Syria is not a party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which has also not been signed by the United States.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 Load up the lawn Darts w/ Rockeye ( MK-83s) and give them some real clusterbombs.....

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-09-02 14:34

#3 Is it Moslems killing Moslems....again ? How naughty. But then, they tend to do a lot of that, for some reason. Can we sell them some more? no? Well do they have enough to do a reasonably good job on ONE ANOTHER anyway?
And they are using them where? In Syria and in Iraq. How naughty. Lot of Moslems living there in those places? Apparently.

We should care?
Why?
Obama went home and left all that stuff behind when he left? Figures. He is that sort of guy apparently. No body calls him a buyout though.

He is President after all ( and the smartest man in the room ) . I heard it on NBC, so it must be true.

Posted by: Goober Poodle7799 2014-09-02 12:35

#2 How the IS deployed those munitions is not mentioned. Perhaps 155's (towed or Self Propelled) formerly owned by the Iraqis?

Posted by: tipover 2014-09-02 11:12

#1 Cluster bombs have been banned by some governments while others have not signed on to the ban. Cluster bombs illegal--well not exactly.

Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-02 09:09

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