Monday, April 19, 2004

For those of you who are fans of US wars of "liberation": The total tonnage of ordnance dropped by British aircraft on Iraq far exceeded the amount dropped during the Kosovo war, in about half the time, figures released today show, raising questions about the conduct of the war. The RAF dropped 914 bombs between March 20 and April 30 last year, they show. Among the bombs dropped by the RAF were 66 BL755s, which release 147 "bomblets" over a wide area, up to 10% of which fail to explode. The figures do not include more than 2,000 Israeli-made artillery cluster shells used around the southern city of Basra.