[LCM Articles] Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast

[Saad Shakhshir]

And the lovely Americans speed even more bombs to Israel.  This time it's
not the "precision bombs" that were shipped a couple of weeks ago, but M-26
artillery rockets which are "fired in barrages and carry hundreds of
grenade-like bomblets that scatter and explode over a broad area".  Clearly
these provide an improved method of self-defense for the vulnerable state of
Israel and will spare the lives of innocent civilians since the wide area
that is being targeted will now be void of civilians who have already been
asked so nicely to leave their homes and become refugees.

There must have been quite a ceremony at the UN security council
yesterday...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/world/middleeast/11military.html

In case it asks for a subsription I've saved it here:

http://web.mit.edu/saads/www/11military.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/lebanon-articles/attachments/20060812/311d716d/attachment.htm