Cluster Bombs Continue to Kill in Lebanon

(19 Oct '06 - RV) Lebanon today approved a long-delayed plan to place closed circuit cameras on all roads in Beirut to tighten security after a wave of bombings and political killings. The region has been plagued by political killings since the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri. Meanwhile, landmine activists say cluster bombs dropped by Israel on Southern Lebanon in the recent month-long war with Hezbollah are still killing up to four civilians a day, a third of them children. Director of Caritas Lebanon, George Khoury, told us how the mines were also causing destitution among farm workers…