Friday, April 2, 2004


Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these cluster bombs did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with “bombies” as dangerous now as when they fell a quarter century ago. BOMBIES examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners, and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped both in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

Because the United States signed the 1962 Geneva Accords prohibiting American military involvement in Laos, the bombing, organized by President Kennedy, the CIA and the Air Force, was kept secret, both from Congress and from the American people, to pursue a covert strategy for ridding the countryside of Communists.

You won't see this on mainstream television. Premiere: Friday, 4/9 @ 8PM ET / 5PM PT - LinkTV

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**Michelle at Mandarin Design is having problems getting into my site. From what I can gather, it may be a problem with Charter Communications, which she uses. Does anyone visiting this site use Charter?

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