The Bush administration is to notify Congress tomorrow that Israel may have violated agreements with Washington when it fired US-supplied cluster munitions into Lebanon in its war with Hizbullah last summer, The New York Times reported today.
Citing State Department officials who spoke yesterday, the Times said the preliminary findings had spawned a sharp debate - which one official characterized as "head-butting" - within the administration over whether Washington should penalize its ally for using cluster munitions in towns and villages where Hizbullah guerrillas placed rocket launchers. The Irish Times
Pallets of 155mm artillery projectiles including DPICM cluster munitions (center and right with yellow diamonds) in the arsenal of an IDF artillery unit on July 23 in northern Israel.
