Saudi-Led Coalition Using Cluster Bombs In Yemen: HRW

[Purveyor]

Source: Agence France-Presse

DUBAI (AFP) -

The Saudi-led coalition has been using US-supplied cluster bombs in its air campaign against Yemeni rebels, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, warning of the long-term dangers to civilians.

The widely banned munitions contain dozens of submunitions, which sometimes do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that can kill or maim long after they were dropped.

HRW said it had gathered photographs, video and other evidence indicating that cluster munitions had been used in coalition air strikes against the Huthi rebel stronghold of Saada province in Yemen's northern mountains.

It said that analysis of satellite imagery suggested that the weapons had landed on a cultivated plateau, within 600 metres (yards) of populated areas.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20150503-saudi-led-coalition-using-cluster-bombs-yemen-hrw

[marmar]

1. And our government will look the other way on this one.......

[Sunlei]

2. all our war profiteer corps love Rich-Ruthless Customers.

[Sunlei]

3. Textron Systems Corporation

HRW said that the munitions used in Yemen appeared to be the CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons manufactured by the Textron Systems Corporation(??I think this is Canadian company?) and supplied to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates by the United States in recent years. <--?retail seller based in Dubai? is this Cheney?

take a look at their war goods and their logos- "Dominate with Confidence"

http://www.textronsystems.com/

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5. Grotesque.

The golden prize that stinks of death.

Strip the owners of their smiling masks and find monsters.

[They_Live]

6. "In the fight...out of harm's way"

Sure sounds like something Cheney would say.

[RiverNoord]

4. Juan Cole suggests that Obama is getting fed up with the Suadi bombing

In my experience, he's seldom wrong about these things. Hopefully he'll reign it in soon.