Qaddafi Forces Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas
Military forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who have
surrounded the Libyan city of Misurata and vowed to crush its
anti-Qaddafi rebellion, have been firing into residential
neighborhoods with heavy weapons, including cluster bombs
that have been banned by much of the world and
ground-to-ground rockets, according to the accounts of
witnesses and survivors and physical evidence on the ground.
Such weapons, which strike large areas with a dense
succession of high-explosive munitions, by their nature
cannot be fired precisely, and when fired into populated
areas place civilians at grave risk.
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