Posted on 11/20/2007 5:56:54 AM PST by waimea.man
BEIRUT, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A hailstorm has caused hundreds of cluster bombs to explode in south Lebanon, the National News Agency said on Tuesday.
The cluster bombs were dropped by Israel during its war with Hezbollah guerrillas last year. The hailstones, as big as walnuts, fell in a number of valleys in south Lebanon, the agency said.
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I thought CBUs had timers so they all detonated in a specific period, like say, 48 hours?
Not passing the smell test. Maybe they were sitting next to depleted uranium shells and the radioactive decay set them off.
—I suspect my byline applies—
Wow! A global warming extreme climate change and evil Zionist cluster bomb two-fer!
“Achmed, what happened?”
“We planted land mines and the hail storm caused them to go off”
“The Jews did what?”
Nope. There is also the problem of them no arming, in which a time out would also be a problem.
LOL! So true!
...or perhaps small anti-personnel mines sown by the Hezzies for the IDF?
I type tooooo slow.
};^)
When it rains it explodes.
I seem to remember an Old Testament account about God fighting the enemies of Israel with Hailstones...hmmm...God is STILL on Israel’s side, I guess...
Big time...
Cluster bomblets have a dud rate of about 5 %.
The original Hamas claim was a million dud bomblets were littering Lebanon. That math didn’t add up to anybody who looked at it but hundreds of duds is reasonable. Doesn’t sound like anybody, Lebanese or Hamas, did much to look for them though.
Perhaps it's just a big fat Al Reuters lie or maybe just a pork pie.
LOL. Anyone out in walnut size hail has bigger problems than the off chance that a submunition will go off.
In the US, despite the enormous amount of unexploded ordnance buried or lying on the ground on and around closed military bases, we have had about 7 serious injuries since the late 1940's. They are hard to set off because they didn't go off when they were dropped. Something was wrong with the fuzing. Every one of those incidents has been due to extreme stupidity on the part of the injured person (eg banging two unexploded 75mm's together on the front porch).
This despite that inactive military bases have a lot of traffic in hunters and hikers.
I've been to sites in the US where you can walk around and see submunitions every ten feet. There are herds of mustangs running around those sites. They aren't finding blown up horses every day, or at all.
Well, Pharoah got hail that caught fire..
This story is risible on it’s face. How stupid do you have to be to work at al-Reuters? How stupid do they think we are?
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