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Lethal Pinatas: Keeping Cluster Bombs from Kids

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Because submunitions (miniature bombs nested inside the mother bomb) dropped by the US in Iraq, "some shaped like tiny bottles with short ribbons and others that are yellow with tissue parachutes, litter gardens and roof tops," according to UNICEF. The cute little "bomblets," as they've been called, are child magnets.Read ...