Sunday, April 17, 2011

Gaddafi's regime denies using cluster bombs

Tunisia. .- The regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been quick to deny the report of the New York Times which suggested that Libyan forces attacked with cluster bombs and Spanish-made surface-to-earth some residential areas. "I challenge you to prove it," said the Libyan government spokesman, Ibrahim Musa.

"By using these pumps, the evidence would remain for days and weeks, and we know that the international community will soon come in droves to our country and we can not do," he argues. The spokesman added that the regime has invited the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) to visit Misrata, scene of heavy bombing site and the rebel troops, which lasts six weeks.

Red Crescent staff and Red Cross will visit the city this Saturday. According to the American newspaper, the remnants of cluster bombs has been examined and photographed under a mortar MAT-120. The components of the 120-mm ammunition, according to the marks contained in the remains, were manufactured in Spain in 2007, before this country from signing the International Convention against cluster bombs and destroy their stockpiles.

Libya has never signed the international agreement.

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