98 Percent of Cluster Bombs Victims are Civilians

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Written by Ann De Ron, Electronic Lebanon Ann De Ron, Electronic Lebanon
Published: 02 November 2006 02 November 2006
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BRUSSELS (IPS) - Ninety-eight percent of registered victims of cluster bombs are civilians, Handicap International, a UK-based NGO said in a report published Thursday.

The report Fatal Footprint was launched in several countries ahead of an international conference on conventional weapons starting in Geneva November 7.

Among others the report cites the case of Adnan's family. He was not quite seven years old when it happened. On August 11, 1999, shortly after some of the worst of the fighting in Kosovo in the Balkans, he went swimming with his family in a lake a few kilometres from their village.

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Iraq a 'work of art in progress' says US general after 49 die

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Written by Julian Borger in Washington Julian Borger in Washington
Published: 02 November 2006 02 November 2006
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An American general in Baghdad called Iraq a "work of art" in progress yesterday in one of the most extraordinary attempts by the US military leadership to put a positive spin on the worsening violence.

"Every great work of art goes through messy phases while it is in transition. A lump of clay can become a sculpture. Blobs of paint become paintings which inspire," Maj Gen Caldwell told journalists in Baghdad's fortified green zone.

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Israel's New Arsenal: Ignored by the American media . . .

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Written by Ethan Heitner, TomPaine.com Ethan Heitner, TomPaine.com
Published: 01 November 2006 01 November 2006
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What bizarre science-fiction horrors have to occur before the American media wakes up to the strange war that Israel is prosecuting against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians? People are still being maimed or killed every day in Lebanon thanks to unexploded cluster ordinance dropped massively by Israel in the 48 hours after a cease-fire had been negotiated but before it went into effect. Over 30 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in October alone. As usual, however, Lebanon and Palestine have vanished from the newscycle (where Israel is currently represented by a president who refuses to step down despite an all-but-indictment for multiple rape charges and an openly fascist party joining the government ). But there has been a steady drumbeat of revelations, largely in the Israeli and British media, ignored entirely by the American media, about Israel's use of horrifying new weapons on civilian populations.

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What is scarier than . . . a distorted media . . .

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Written by AUPHR AUPHR
Published: 01 November 2006 01 November 2006
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A functioning democracy requires open debate and accurate information. As the recent studies by Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights demonstrate, the Oregonian's news coverage is seriously biased when it covers the Palestine / Israel conflict and the Oregonian's editorial coverage silences voices that need to be heard. Scary, isn't it?

See our flyer at:
http://www.auphr.org/flyers/Oregonian-BOO!.pdf

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IDF soldiers take brothers from their home and beat them for hours, October 2006

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Written by Nadel Ashtiyeh, greengrocer, Testimony to B'tselem Nadel Ashtiyeh, greengrocer, Testimony to B'tselem
Published: 01 November 2006 01 November 2006
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The soldiers came and beat us two more times. The last time was really brutal. Three soldiers, one of them the tall one, beat us hard and quick. They kicked us, hit us with their rifle butts, and punched us all over our bodies. Nidal and I stayed next to each other out of fear and pain. This went on for about fifteen minutes. We screamed and asked for help, thinking somebody outside might come and rescue us from the horrible nightmare. The pain was intolerable. I felt as if I were about to die. One of them hit me in the midsection with his rifle and I fell to the floor. He hit me on my right hand and I felt like it was broken. I lost consciousness.

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