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Bomb 'soon to be thing of the past'
BBC ^
| 13 November 2008
| Angus Crawford
Posted on 11/12/2008 9:21:29 PM PST by fishhound
On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs.
As a result Britain, by law, will have to destroy more than 30 million explosives.
The UK does not have the facilities, so they are being exported to Germany for disposal.
"I feel good to work for a good thing in the world and for peace," says Jorg Fiegert, production manager for Nammo Demil.
It runs a site in Pinnow in Germany which destroys munitions.
Over the next five years its work will include taking apart bomblets from British cluster munitions.
"It can punch through armour," Jorg explains as he holds up a British bomblet.
It is only the size of an egg cup, and came from the MLRS, the Multiple Launch Rocket System.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: clusterbombs
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:21:29 PM PST
by
fishhound
To: fishhound
Yeah, right.
Only the ‘good guys’ will actually adhere to it.
2
posted on
11/12/2008 9:22:55 PM PST
by
counterpunch
( We must not re-fight 2008 in 2012.)
To: fishhound
I’m sure the radical muslims will respond by behaving better and using bombs that do not have as much potential for collateral damage.
3
posted on
11/12/2008 9:24:20 PM PST
by
DemonDeac
To: fishhound
Reminds me of safer bullets and less deadly warfare. Remember what Patton said the point of war was.
4
posted on
11/12/2008 9:24:42 PM PST
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: fishhound
It sounds lofty at first glance, but since neither China nor Russia have agreed to this, it is stupid for the UK to destroy their weapons. One day they may be real sorry.
5
posted on
11/12/2008 9:30:41 PM PST
by
KittyKares
(.)
To: LukeL
This idea sounds more like a “cluster f**k”.
6
posted on
11/12/2008 9:31:05 PM PST
by
curling
To: counterpunch
7
posted on
11/12/2008 9:31:37 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: fishhound
William Ayers will be named to the US delegation.
8
posted on
11/12/2008 9:31:53 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: counterpunch; DemonDeac; LukeL; KittyKares
It’s like they want permission or a pass to sit out the “big one”.
9
posted on
11/12/2008 9:32:13 PM PST
by
fishhound
(Church, guns, a fishing rod and a hat light.)
To: DemonDeac
10
posted on
11/12/2008 9:32:55 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: fishhound
This is a colossal waste of money, imho. I am reasonably sure these could be useful some time in the future.
11
posted on
11/12/2008 9:33:27 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Nothing is surprising me lately.
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:33:58 PM PST
by
fishhound
(Church, guns, a fishing rod and a hat light.)
To: fishhound
Cluster Bombs don’t kill people, Germans with Cluster Bombs kill people. And the idiot UKeydians are giving all the cluster bombs to fritz...
To: Smokin' Joe
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:35:31 PM PST
by
fishhound
(Church, guns, a fishing rod and a hat light.)
To: fishhound
England’s giving bombs to GERMANY?!
Isn’t that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
To: Professional
“Cluster Bombs don’t kill people, Germans with Cluster Bombs kill people.”
I got a great laugh from that.
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:39:26 PM PST
by
fishhound
(Church, guns, a fishing rod and a hat light.)
To: eddie willers
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:40:24 PM PST
by
fishhound
(Church, guns, a fishing rod and a hat light.)
To: fishhound
"...Jorg Fiegert, production manager for Nammo Demil...'It can punch through armour, Jorg explains as he holds up a British bomblet."
It's obvious that Germany also needs new blood in business. Our leadership is starting to look like something from the Ozarks of years past. ...should probably make a note to avoid making any "wrong turn" into affluent neighborhoods.
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:43:13 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
To: fishhound
Those who pound their bombs into plowshares will plow for those that don’t...
19
posted on
11/12/2008 9:45:58 PM PST
by
steel_resolve
(We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
To: fishhound
I can think of a couple good places where they can “dispose” those bombs!
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posted on
11/12/2008 9:47:52 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. - Ronald Reagan)
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