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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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