#x2013; Rasha Zayoun shyly brings out her drawings. The teenager likes to draw women #x2019;s clothing, mostly long flowing dresses and vibrant skirts. Since the 17 year old had her leg blown off by an Israeli cluster bomblet, however, many Maarakeh.
Each Sunday, says her mother Alia Salman, friends innocent and curious object. The poor Shia family has no television to follow the news. Unaware of its potential for destruction, Mohammed Zayoun put the leftover from last thyme that he had collected.
His 4 year old daughter Aya Zayoun found it there and gave it to her big sister. In the explosion that followed, Rasha lost her left leg. Her validity of such claims.
#x2018;We weren #x2019;t expecting this, #x2019; says Dalya Farran. #x2018;Most of the cluster bombs were dropped in the last three days. #x2019; facto landmines, capable of exploding much later when touched by a plough or a child.
#x2019; Handicap Established in 2001, UN-MACC-SL from Southern Lebanon. Now, teams from around the world must by the end of the year. Cluster bombs, however, have a tendency to linger long after the conflict is over.
Dozens of people still die every year in Laos, to cite but one example, from bombs dropped by the United States during the Indochinese War. A total of 11,000 Laotians have been killed or maimed by these weapons #x2013; post-conflict. Since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, there have been an estimated 38,000 cluster bomb victims in Vietnam.
Ironically, some of the cluster manufactured in the U.S. during this era.
A CBU-58/B cluster Mine Action Group (MAG) at their base near Nabatieh. It scattered, waiting to be set off. Most likely by a civilian.
Researcher Dr. Franklin Lamb points to a yellow label. #x2018;Warranty Terminates 2/74, #x2019; it reads.
This cluster bomb, used by Israel in August 2006, expired 32 years earlier. of the University of Auckland, in Political Studies and French language. She is currently interning with a Lebanese newspaper in Beirut, as part of her Masters degree in - The United Nation’s General Assembly, The Security Council, the Arab League, Iran, Israel, Egypt, and the Non-Aligned Movement are just some of those who have publicly lent their support to a Middle East nuclear free zone over the past three decades.
It’s no exaggeration to say that representatives of virtually the entire world have expressed support for Middle East nuclear free zone (MENFZ). Yet in the dozens of articles I’ve read in recent weeks about the Iranian nuclear crisis I’m yet to see a single mention of the proposal. See.
.. - You are one today, March 29, 2007, Wesley Neil Swanson, and 365 days ago you had not yet seen the light of day.
Now you love it. Now you wake up every morning with the sun and shout your delight at being alive. You make the hand sign for light, .
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Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them. 2008 is too soon to bring our men and women home to their .
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.. earlier… - Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his closest advisers have stated repeatedly over the past two months that the selective firings of eight United States attorneys last year were justified because President Bush has the authority to purge federal prosecutors at will, a fact that is not under dispute.
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- Understandably, the horrendous slaughter last Wednesday of 29 persons in Gaur by lathis, strangulation, and gunshot wounds, among other means, has been universally and very rightly condemned both at home and abroad. While the official version of ..
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. - BOSTON - Diebold Election Systems, Inc., the controversial voting machine supplier, won't be supplying Massachusetts with its machines in 2008 and the company is not happy about it.
So they are suing the state over the lost contract bid. But the solemn tone of Diebold's lawyer, William Weisberg, speaking in a hushed voice almost swallowed up by the stately, high-ceilinged courtroom of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week, drew laughter from the jovial judge with a Cheshire cat grin and raised chuckles from the courtroom audience. See… I am on My way to Calvary.
Those wicked men, fearing to see Me die before reaching the end, look for someone to help Me carry the Cross, and from the vicinity they seized a man called Simon. See..
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