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Last update - 13:14 11/10/2007

Briton killed while clearing IDF cluster bombs in southern Lebanon

By Reuters

A British man was killed on Thursday while clearing cluster bombs dropped on southern Lebanon by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year, a United Nations spokeswoman said.

He was the 13th person to be killed during work to clear unexploded ordinance from the war in July and August, 2006, said Dalya Farran of the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) in Lebanon.

The incident was under investigation, she said, declining to identify the man because his next of kin had yet to be notified. He worked for a private company as part of the UNMACC clearance effort, she said.

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Lebanese security sources said the Briton was killed near Bint Jbail, a town close to the border with Israel. Cluster bombs had also killed a six-year-old boy and a shepherd in the same area over the last week, the sources said.

Farran said 23 civilians had been killed by unexploded ordinance, mostly cluster bombs, since the end of the war. The conflict was triggered on July 12 when Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

UNMACC says Israel dropped a "few million" cluster bombs on Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands of the bomblets failed to explode, Farran said. The number could be as high as one million.

Cluster bombs are fired from the air or ground in canisters which burst to release the bomblets, some as small as a flashlight battery.

UNMACC says its work has been hindered because Israel has not responded to UN requests for data on where it dropped the bombs, which were mostly used in the last three days of the conflict.

Israel says it uses cluster bombs in accordance with international law, under which they are not banned outright

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1.	Israel will not give location of bombed area`s	13:18	\|	Mark B.	11/10/07

2.	Those cluster bombs were dispersed by a terrorist organization in	13:37	\|	Apartheid	11/10/07

3.	attempted genocide	14:02	\|	KMM	11/10/07

4.	Israel is Responsible to pay compensation,	14:09	\|	Van Koen	11/10/07

5.	When #4	14:27	\|	David	11/10/07

6.	This obscene use of cluster bombs is a war crime	14:30	\|	Tim	11/10/07

7.	Ah, the vultures, the hyenas & the smoke machines are here	14:32	\|	CK Tan	11/10/07

8.	What`s wrong with using cluster bombs?	14:57	\|	Ofer	11/10/07

9.	Pedo-Tim,"sheer number"? Cluster bombs are not forbidden	14:58	\|	Absolute Sweden	11/10/07

10.	countries using cluster bombs	15:10	\|	DrO	11/10/07

11.	TO DAVID, hypocricy	15:17	\|	Grant	11/10/07

12.	8 Ofer. You are right. If little bombs were scattered around	15:25	\|	Apartheid	11/10/07

13.	Cluster bombs	15:38	\|	Semaj	11/10/07

14.	10 DrO So if I criticise the Russians for using cluster bombs	15:40	\|	Apartheid	11/10/07

15.	TO NO 4.	15:48	\|	DANNY.	11/10/07

16.	America has cut all cluster bomb shipments to Israel	15:48	\|	Natallie Durson	11/10/07

17.	No Tim - Cluster Bombs Perfectly Legal	15:48	\|	Craig F	11/10/07

18.	TO NO 8. OFER GOD BLESS YOU AND ALL YOUR FAMILY.	15:50	\|	DANNY.	11/10/07

19.	18 DANNY I`n sure God approves of cluster bombs. I`m sure He	16:07	\|	Apartheid	11/10/07

20.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 1	16:17	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

21.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 2	16:17	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

22.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 3	16:18	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

23.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 4	16:18	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

24.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 5	16:19	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

25.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 6	16:20	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

26.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 8	16:20	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

27.	#5 David - UN RESOLUTIONS 9	16:20	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

28.	craig F Putting nails and nuts and bolts into a few rockets is a	16:24	\|	Apartheid	11/10/07

29.	There Is A Cluster Posterer On This Column	16:30	\|	Yosemite	11/10/07

30.	#17 Craig F	16:38	\|	Boycott	11/10/07

31.	Apartheid Against Jews	16:41	\|	Craig F	11/10/07

32.	#1	16:44	\|	Moshe	11/10/07

33.	To Boycott	16:46	\|	Craig F	11/10/07

34.	#14 Ridiculous question!	16:58	\|	DrO	11/10/07

35.	#4	17:03	\|	Moshe	11/10/07

36.	#16	17:06	\|	Moshe	11/10/07

37.	#9, "Absolute Sweden"	17:08	\|	Silvienne	11/10/07

38.	#17, Craig, another one who wouldn`t mind	17:09	\|	Silvienne	11/10/07

39.	#20-27	17:11	\|	Moshe	11/10/07

40.	#31, Craig..."Apartheid Against Jews"	17:14	\|	Silvienne	11/10/07

41.	Hezbollah, a terrorist group, is responsible for this sad outcome	17:15	\|	Jason from colorado	11/10/07

42.	Response to #9 cluster bombs	17:35	\|	ROBERT	11/10/07

43.	david 5	17:36	\|	realism	11/10/07

44.	Hey Dave ... you`ve gone quiet..??	17:42	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

45.	Yes, Silvienne	17:45	\|	Craig	11/10/07

46.	Moshe #37... petrodollars???	17:45	\|	Ahmed	11/10/07

47.	Silvienne and Cluster Bombs	17:51	\|	Craig	11/10/07

48.	#33 Craig F	18:01	\|	Boycott	11/10/07

49.	#31 Criag F`s duplicity	18:07	\|	Boycott	11/10/07

50.	1000 Pound Gurilla.	18:30	\|	JR	11/10/07

51.	Silvienne for Pedo-Tim and against weapons	18:38	\|	Absolute Sweden	11/10/07

52.	AHMED AND ALL THE RESOLUTIONS	18:42	\|	Brant	11/10/07

53.	ghoul parade is here but...	19:39	\|	Any name at all	11/10/07

54.	Talking about cluster bombs,	19:41	\|	Jasmine Murphy	11/10/07

55.	You`re right Ahmed the UN is wasting it`s time. What about China?	19:42	\|	Jasmine Murphy	11/10/07

56.	The UN only sends one investigator	19:44	\|	Jasmine Murphy	11/10/07

57.	Who invented this foul ammunition?	19:54	\|	Esther	11/10/07

58.	Israel recently attacked Syria. Therefore, by Israeli standards,	20:38	\|	Apartheid	11/10/07

59.	#51, Absolute Sweden...	00:15	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

60.	#45, Craig...	00:17	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

61.	#45, Craig...	00:17	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

62.	Esther...I was thinking the same thing...	00:19	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

63.	#58, Apartheid..	00:20	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

64.	Craig and the Cluster Bombs...	00:23	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

65.	Craig and the cluster bombs twice...	00:26	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

66.	Jasmine Murphy, Katyushas....	00:27	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

67.	Assassins	02:37	\|	JR	12/10/07

68.	#16 America has cut all cluster bomb shipments to Israel	02:44	\|	Murray of Montreal	12/10/07

69.	#58 Apartheid	02:47	\|	Murray of Montreal	12/10/07

70.	#54, Jasmine Murphy...	03:19	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

71.	#60, Murray of Montreal...	03:21	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

72.	Craig, I already posted this....	03:24	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

73.	#51, Absolute Sweden...I already posted this once	03:27	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

74.	Such Selective Reporting	13:49	\|	Armen	12/10/07

75.	Cluster Bomb Origins	13:51	\|	Joshua	12/10/07

76.	Murray #69	13:53	\|	Joshua	12/10/07

77.	Nails and Silvienne	13:55	\|	Joshua	12/10/07

78.	Silvienne #72	13:56	\|	Joshua	12/10/07

79.	#78, Joshua...	16:23	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

80.	#77, Joshua, what are you talking about? Give a post number	16:24	\|	Silvienne	12/10/07

81.	Cluster bombs	17:21	\|	Nick	14/10/07

82.	craig	23:15	\|	glyn	15/10/07

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