More here, via LewRockewell.com. A sample:
"U.S. forces have expended thousands of cluster munitions in Iraq, often in heavily populated places. (In the Karbala-Hillah area alone, U.S. teams had destroyed by late August last year more than 31,000 unexploded bomblets 'that landed on fields, homes, factories and roads . . . many were in populated areas on Karbala's outskirts.') The toll among children, whose natural curiosity draws them to the interesting-looking bomblets, has been heavy.
"Khalid Tamimi and four other members of his family were walking on a footpath in Baghdad when his brother, seven-year-old Haithem, spotted something interesting, picked it up and examined it, then threw it down. The bomblet's explosion killed Haithem and his nine-year-old cousin, Nora, and seriously wounded Khalid, as well as the children's mothers, Amal and Mayasa.
"Last year the whole world learned about Ali Ismail Abbas, the twelve-year-old boy who was sleeping in his home in Baghdad when a U.S. missile struck and the explosion tore off both his arms and killed his parents and his brother. His heartrending photo appeared in news media around the world, as did reports of his anguished cries for help in getting his arms back.
"Recently, the ferocious U.S. attacks on Fallujah have yielded hundreds of additional casualties among the innocent. There, as in many other places in Iraq, U.S. troops have fired recklessly and without adequate regard for the thousands of civilians they thereby placed in mortal jeopardy. 'I'm sitting at the funeral of my only son, who was killed because of the U.S. Marines' harsh manner in dealing with civilians,' Abbas Abdullah told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. 'They shot him in the head, and he died instantly.'"
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