Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Britain admits to using 'brutal' vacuum bomb against Taliban

BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have used one of the world's most deadly and controversial missiles to fight the Taliban.

Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave that sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies. . . .

Legal experts concerned that use of the weapons broke international law simply renamed them.

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