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2014-02-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria using powerful new cluster munitions

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Posted by Steve White 2014-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Oh no, not cluster munitions! Didn't Assad-daddy just use plain old artillery barrages to keep his peeps in line?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-02-20 10:17|| 2014-02-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 having being used ... in attacks that killed at least two civilians

Two? That's some seriously deadly powerful stuff ya got there, Mohamed.

Posted by SteveS 2014-02-20 10:43|| 2014-02-20 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Photo of munition here.

Posted by Pappy 2014-02-20 12:48|| 2014-02-20 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Barrel bombs are bad. Cluster munitions are bad. What do you expect Alawis to use---nerf bombs?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-02-20 14:26|| 2014-02-20 14:26|| Front Page Top

#5 in the central city of Hama

Hama? As in "Hama Rules"? Don't I remember Daddy wiping out that city?

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-20 15:26|| 2014-02-20 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't I remember Daddy wiping out that city?

Think cockroaches

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-02-20 17:45|| 2014-02-20 17:45|| Front Page Top

#7 And 4 times as hard to clear. They are on the roofs, the fields, buried under the desert.

Posted by newc 2014-02-20 18:44|| 2014-02-20 18:44|| Front Page Top

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