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To: jttmab who wrote (198101)	8/19/2006 9:09:13 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"A key United Nations clearance expert has expressed concern about the similarity of the coloring of the yellow BLU-97/B cluster bomblets and the small yellow food aid parcels being airdropped in Afghanistan, noting that people are being encouraged to pick up the food parcels, but that picking up a bomblet would be lethal. So why doesn't the UN change the color of the packets if they are concerned? I mean when he realised that the two things were the same color it doesn't seem that big a leap to change the color of the food packets