Qaddafi Forces Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas

[Gerald]

MISURATA, Libya — Military forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who have surrounded this city and vowed to crush its anti-Qaddafi rebellion, have been firing into residential neighborhoods with heavy weapons, including cluster bombs that have been banned by much of the world and ground-to-ground rockets, according to the accounts of witnesses and survivors and physical evidence on the ground.

Such “indiscriminate” weapons, which strike large areas with a dense succession of high-explosive munitions, by their nature cannot be fired precisely, and when fired into populated areas place civilians at grave risk.

The use of such weapons could add urgency to the arguments by some countries in NATO, principally Britain and France, that the alliance needs to step up attacks on the Qaddafi forces, to better fulfill the United Nations mandate to protect civilians. And it could place pressure on the United States, which pulled back air power from the war when it ceded control of the campaign to NATO earlier this month.

When asked about the weaponry at a news conference in Berlin, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was “not aware” of the specific use of cluster munitions in Misurata, but said, “I’m not surprised by anything that Colonel Qadaffi and his forces do.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/wo...6libya.html?hp


Note: April 15, 2011

[Gerald]

Cluster Bombs,bad news

[TorpX]

Cluster bombs.

With our great leader Obama and NATO leading a humanitariam mission, what could go wrong?

[MH]

Now thats really makes him outlaw.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Aw, damnit. This is precisely what I was worried about last time we had this discussion. We let the rag-tag rebels dictate the pace of operations and now they've gone and advanced at such a tepid pace that Qadaffi is still around to order these kinds of retaliatory strikes. Goddamn Islamic rebels. Why can't they be more like rebels that aren't stupid and cowardly? I should have expected as much after seeing those worthless SOBs in action.

I hope NATO has warships with really good fire-finder radars so they can put those launchers down before they cause any more damage.

[MH]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Aw, damnit. This is precisely what I was worried about last time we had this discussion. We let the rag-tag rebels dictate the pace of operations and now they've gone and advanced at such a tepid pace that Qadaffi is still around to order these kinds of retaliatory strikes. Goddamn Islamic rebels. Why can't they be more like rebels that aren't stupid and cowardly? I should have expected as much after seeing those worthless SOBs in action.

I hope NATO has warships with really good fire-finder radars so they can put those launchers down before they cause any more damage.

Thats new age politictly correct war.
Let peaple get killed slowly in small groups its easer to swallow.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by MH

Now thats really makes him outlaw.

You are aware that the United States still refuses to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

We are the last people to criticize.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Platapus

You are aware that the United States still refuses to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

We are the last people to criticize.

From my point of vew all those conventions are as usefull as signing convention for using paintball guns instead of real bullets.
Its just populistic bull.
The only way to ensure not using any sort of weapon in time of war is the fear of retaliation or having good or more effective replacment for baned weapon.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by TorpX

Cluster bombs.

With our great leader Obama and NATO leading a humanitariam mission, what could go wrong?

civilian populations hardest hit, as always, unfortunately, but that Muammar el-Qaddafi must be eliminated is no doubt

[Jimbuna]

And so it goes on and on and on

[Gerald]

He knows that his time will come, and there are ways to get rid of this man.

Blame the terrorists.
Daffy is right, these rebelious terrorists are hiding amongst the civilian population, they are the ones who are responsible, they are the ones using Libyans who they claim to care about as human shields.
They just expect the western liberal media to jump on its usual anti daffy bandwagon and condemn the attacks which they are inviting on themselves for propoganda purposes.
These stupid laws on trying to make warfare legal are ridiculous, the governments job is to kill as many people as needed as quickly as possible to ensure an end to open armed revolt which is most probably all being run by foriegn terrorist sponsoring countries anyway.

[MH]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

These stupid laws on trying to make warfare legal are ridiculous, the governments job is to kill as many people as needed as quickly as possible to ensure an end to open armed revolt which is most probably all being run by foriegn terrorist sponsoring countries anyway.

make warfare legal?

[Gerald]

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Well at least Qaddafi is using self-sterilizing cluster munitions against civilians...