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See the earlier post here noting that Senators Diane Feinstein and Patrick Leahy introduced a bill to limit the use of cluster bombs. To my knowledge, the effort went nowhere. http://bostonuniversity.blogspot.com/2007/02/cluster-bombs-used-in-civilian-areas.html
Thanks. I was thinking specifically of the inquiry into Israeli violation of US arms agreement in the last Lebanon war, this is the last I saw of it, quite a long time ago: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=79029
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Sorry to trouble, but have you heard what happened with the inquiry into Israel's use of US cluster bombs?
See the earlier post here noting that Senators Diane Feinstein and Patrick Leahy introduced a bill to limit the use of cluster bombs. To my knowledge, the effort went nowhere. http://bostonuniversity.blogspot.com/2007/02/cluster-bombs-used-in-civilian-areas.html
Thanks. I was thinking specifically of the inquiry into Israeli violation of US arms agreement in the last Lebanon war, this is the last I saw of it, quite a long time ago: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=79029
But I had not seen the introduced bill either.
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