Critics decry US cluster bomb sales to Saudi - Features - Al Jazeera English

Critics decry US cluster bomb sales to Saudi - Features - Al Jazeera English

Feature: Arms control advocates are decrying a new US Department of Defence announcement that it will be building and selling 1,300 cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, worth some $641m.

The munitions at the heart of the sale are technically legal under recently strengthened US regulations aimed at reducing impact on civilian safety, but activists contend that battlefield evidence suggests the weapons actually exceed those regulations.