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Strategies & Market Trends : The New Economy and its Winners

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To: Tom Kearney who wrote (9973)12/12/2001 12:09:39 AM
From: Bill Harmond   of 57684
 
..To one side lay a large sheet of American metal marked "Dispenser and bomb, aircraft CBU 87B/B", the casing for the cluster bomb unit which levelled this ridgeline. A handful of desperate mojahedin soldiers scavenged for scraps of metal among the dozens of unexploded, yellow, cylindrical anti-personnel bomblets scattered across the hillside. On a second sheet of green metal casing nearby an American soldier named Gary had scribbled his own brief marking before loading the cluster bomb into the hold of one of the B-52s.

"For those whose dreams were taken," he wrote, "here are a few nightmares. This is gonna shine like a diamond in a goat's ass"..


guardian.co.uk
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