Raytheon once said: “We take a dumb bomb and make it into a smart bomb.”
And one of their huge Paveway II bombs was pictured as it fell, part of a four-week Israeli assault that has killed 1903 Palestinians, including 450 children, and injured 10,000. Sixty-seven Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed.
Raytheon are one of only two firms who make the Paveway II smart bomb and are one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers.
In 2009, after another Israeli blitz on Gaza, Amnesty International found remnants of a 500lb bomb with manufacturing codes identifying it as one of Raytheon’s.
Can you imagine living where you can watch bombs dropping? The boy in red tells a horrific tale. Living with that fear day in and day out, all night, every night ... I can't fully fathom how one lives with that.
ReplyDeleteImpossible to conceive of it, Teresa. Mortified that these weapons are Scottish-made.
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