Cluster bombs have been banned in many countries because they are indiscriminateand leave unexploded ordnance that can be a danger, long after the original attack. Sebastian Usher reports.
During the Six Day War in 1967, the Israeli and Jordanian armies laid mines here, churches were booby-trapped, and unexploded ordnance could still be anywhere.
Pershing was assigned to the ordnance department with the temporary rank of major, establishing the Office of Customs and Insular Affairs to oversee the occupation of these newly -acquired territories.
The king then left London himself, an action which is retrospectively viewed as a mistake, as in doing so he left behind the huge cache of arms and ordnance in the Tower of London.