WHO will run Iraq? How will the peace be won? Accurately predicting the political and humanitarian aftermath of the conflict was never going to be easy, but over the past week one thing has become absolutely, depressingly certain. When British and US forces decided to use cluster bombs in Iraq they guaranteed that the killing will continue long after the fighting ends.
In the two years after Operation Desert Storm ended in 1991, unexploded cluster bombs killed 1600 Iraqi civilians and injured 2500 more. And among Kuwait’s population of only 2.1 million, there were 1609 deaths and injuries from cluster…
