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A man convicted of the terrorism offenses now says personal losses was able to actually kill his 2 victims the family of the former England cricket captain Bob Willis have announced his death age 70 he made 90 Test match appearances and took $325.00 wickets is the former England assistant coach Paul for price genuinely lovely. About the game of cricket about England cricket county cricket but just a genuinely nice fellow who in recent times people the same on the verdict in climbing into the England team of 2 a poor day but the Katie passionately great sense of humor fantastic man it really is today with the rest of the sport his. Way around big big pressure that's the words of Everton boss Marco silver whose future looks even more bleak after a 5 to defeat by Liverpool in the side Dobby it means Liverpool move 8 points clear at the top of the table but Everton drop into the relegation zone Meanwhile a Marcus Russia double condemned former Manchester United boss chose a marina at his 1st a feat as Spurs manager if it is to won at Old Trafford Leicester back to 2nd with a 2 no win over what 3rd there were also with the Chelsea wolves and Southampton Meanwhile in the Scottish Premiership Celtic have moved 2 points clear at the top of the table they'd be Hamilton 21 late on all Rangers were held to a 2 will draw at Aberdeen and he just says he has no fear in his heart for his rematch with Andy Rooney's Genia head of the heavyweight showdown on Saturday just she was warned Ruiz he's punching like a horse kicking backwards and there's been another big shot at the u.k. 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Thank you Nora Well when we think about unexploded ordinance we tend to think by mines and we might think about the pictures of Princess Diana in 1907 going through a minefield and I can go all I which was being the mind by a very successful effort called Halo and indeed since 1903 the United States has spent more than $3400000000.00 on the mining operations but let's think instead about cluster bombs the little things that come out of bigger bombs dropped from airplanes and places where armed forces want to do some damage and the New York Times in a new report says that dod bombers from cluster mines have killed or injured but 56086000 civilians since the end of World War 2 That's not the news the news is how much damage they're actually doing to American troops who have been dying at the rate of several a year and the peace estimates that scores of the American military have lost their lives when trying to deal with an unexploded cluster bomb John a Smith is the author of the piece in The New York Times Magazine and he's with us hello John. Thanks for having me well thank you very much for coming to talk to us . This this is a horrible weapon isn't it I mean there's no there's no I knew un convention or anything against the cluster bomb as them well there is there is an international treaty. The stockpiling use these weapons in more than 100 countries around the world have signed the treaty but the United States and a few others are among. Well if so at the table Yeah so so the us continues to use it they are they still being flawed in in conflict. Well my understanding of the last time the United States used them in armed conflict was in December 2009 in Yemen before that it appears that it had used them since 2003 in the early days of the Iraq invasion that year. So. My understand is that the United States still maintains large arsenals or large image Tori's of cluster weapons overseas to use if they choose Let's go back to an incident which a poor in 1991 is a devastating incident during the Iraq war and what can you tell us about what happened to a group of ordinance experts including one stop trick well so what happened is early in the war or before the war the United States feared that Operation Desert Storm which was going to retake Kuwait from Iraqi control could last for months and could have tens of thousands of casualties and there was an airfield about 70 miles over the border called some on it and it was a big runway at 10000 feet so really any American heavy cargo plane could land there and this was going to be major logistics for this what was feared to be a perch acted very bloody war and so. This is a priority target joint French it was a French led effort with American engineers in tow went to the airfield and with those there was a battalion of Engineers they had a 4 man explosive ordnance disposal team that had just been assigned to them and unfortunately there was friction between and. From the engineers towards these bomb techs and. They were basically told you know you're not needed here we've got this and got this and Mr Craker Staff Sergeant Crick was one of those bomb techs That's right yeah my cricked my Crick and Scott Parker were the 2 leaders then there were 2 other soldiers with them and I said I talked to Scott party for hours and hours and hours. In recent years what would happen is they get to the airfield they discover a dud $500.00 pound bomb on one end and then about a dozen of these blue $97.00 bomb what's little submissions from a cluster bomb on the other end and that the engineers say hey you know do you go take care that they will take care of these little. My cricket and his teammates that's a terrible idea these things are incredibly hazardous You can't pick them up you can't move them you can only blow them up where they lay and unfortunately engineers didn't take their advice and they said the tech so I mean it's almost uniquely dangerous this thing isn't it this go there's no way that it's going to destroy itself for example if it fails to that Nate on impact. That's right it will certainly these do not have any sort of self-destruct. Capability And so but with which we heard about the blue $97.00 is that the fusing is sort of uniquely sensitive. You know among other munitions generally speaking you talk to. The folks who have run. You know bombing ranges or you know supervised testing ranges rather and they'll say there's about a 10 percent rate across the board for mortars artillery shells bombs of all kinds but cluster weapons generally have about a percent rate or higher so you know double or more than double the rate of any other kind of munition and part of that is because these things are made in such large quantities and they're deployed in such large quantities that you can sort of afford to not have all of them go off like you would in other in other weapons So unfortunately this case these soldiers these engineers ended up they started off blowing these things up one by one but then one of the platoon sergeants prevailed upon a company commander to say hey I think it's Ok to take these things up and also we should stack them up and save time and save explosives and that's exactly what they did in that pile ended up exploding and it killed 7 of the soldiers and you know that you know the soldiers came in to try to help and they were they were sent away yet again so it was really just a tragedy. That was totally unnecessary for so many reasons and hours after those 7 soldiers died the Americans were ordered off your ear. And within you know a couple days the war was over anyway so as my cricket credit is you know it's he said it was just a complete waste of you know life that I was I was tragic Yeah yeah. And without going into into detail I mean you've you've tracked other examples haven't you of these blue 12 sevens blowing up and idling people killing the you know not you know killing civilians in the embers but also killing friendly forces if you like so wasn't there an effort to phase them out there was in 2008 u.s. Secretary to spend some time Robert Gates signed a internal memorandum that gave the department offense 10 years to phase out these older more unreliable cluster weapons of all kinds and said Ok as of January 1st 2019 you'll only be able to use new weapons that fail less than one percent of the time. And that simply never happened the deity never put enough time or money into the research and development effort but I think also it's just maybe a goal that technology is not able yet that the government can expect to. Create a weapon that's that reliable and. Has a low enough cost that it can afford to buy them in sufficient numbers and then just about a year before that was going to be irrevocably put into place in Nov 27th teen the deputy secretary defense at that time Patrick Shanahan just reversed course. You know with it's sort of came out of nowhere people who track these issues it took them totally by surprise he just said you know we're going to blow through this deadline and if commanders want to be able to use these we're in a lot of museum and that was. I said it. And that's the No body of opinion in the in the Pentagon against using these these had fully destructive in the harmful weapons. Well it weirdly these things have their supporters. There are some people who who. Who just believe that there are more effective and yet they don't define effectiveness and I've pressed Pentagon official officials to define this repeatedly and they just won't engage but I have I have a background as I was an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the Navy in the u.s. Navy myself so I understand the way these weapons are designed you know pretty intimately and I have a fair understanding of the way that military leaders look at effectiveness and it's so limited and so outdated in their estimation but the these people who are supporters also don't talk to any bomb techs who would tell them yeah 20 percent rate is pretty standard or higher you know some are higher some are lower but 20 percent about right and you know be able to explain how these things don't really do what people want them to do there and they've never done you know quote unquote the job that they were meant to do as as well as advertised and so that that these things still have fervent supporters is you know is something I can't really explain and his staff Sergeant Craig still with us. Unfortunately no he about a year after he got back from Desert Storm. He was he was in a very bad place he. He had a history of heavy drinking. He had it had gotten he'd been arrested for drunk driving before the war and after Desert started the army was looking to draw down in numbers and so anybody who had that kind of thing on their record was not to be allowed to rearm lest staying sort of spiraled out of control and Crick ended up unfortunately taking his own life. About a year after he got back and so. This thing it sort of. Passed into legend among you know sort of older bomb techs in the u.s. And. Mike actually kept a log book the entire time during the war and so we have sort of a minute by minute. Account of what Mike and these other guys went through so even though Mike's not alive anymore not around to tell his story we actually you know hear from him quite quite well what happened and and that's a pretty remarkable thing John as mayor of the New York Times thank you very much Joe It's been my pleasure thank you thank you for telling the story. Well we have news from Powell Harbor I'm quoting the local a.b.c. Station in Honolulu know as saying that the law is over. And the suspect in the active shooting is confirmed dead We'll bring you any more information when we get . Well Bob Willis died to 70 man who was behind huge success in English cricket a fast bowling legend who really had to lie Slater on becoming a weathering pundit fiercely critical of the poor play but with a smile never too far away and loved by many many fans before of course there was a time as one of the quickest bowlers in the world took 325 wickets in 1000 tests from 171900 84 kept in this country and of course that career best 8 for 43 to help England to a famous win over Australia at Headingley in the 1981 us well it's Willis now will is to bright bright his 19 Australian 11149900 would have victory he has Willis in both the bright bright missed and just. One. Runs. Punching. The ground and the player hell does go for the villain Well what a finish write this for 19 Willis is taken gets 43 the best ever finding this bowler here it's getting me against Australia a phenomenal performance by Bob Willis and Australia all out for 111 England have won by 18 runs the matchless Henry blow felt there and also listening to that is Graham Yallop who scored 58 in the 1st innings of that match for Australia but we're sorry to remind you of this was removed by Bob Well us in the 2nd innings for a dark really. Yeah absolutely I wasn't. There at all my wife what was he like to feast What was it like standing up to. Look we held the greatest respect for Valdas of all of the scenic I've anything away there's always Taj involved in the body a lot and cramped you up and have a good while all the time. We were very wary of all of you know him coming in from the wind behind him and he was you know going in and in the vicinity of 14145 ks an asset which there is a minimal right for his career in the tough competitor. To the remarkably long run up to. Engage and that enabling a left hand it was a bit awkward to Feist because he had this. Action that turns a little run towards the enemy camp in at the glory hole when across the size it was always difficult to face but we respected him that you know we didn't just listing that. Broadcasting is both actually pretty ordinary memory from a study perspective. What did you expect to win what did you all do when the English team you know rushed the club. Had a blow fell the sky. I think I had and I was in the corner carrying the child I couldn't wave it you know where he had to my gallant 2125 the school was. We were absolutely shattered and couldn't believe. The tiger gets to start with but also we felt like the adélie in that 2nd inning. So I was course it was called both arms asses was it but really you might have thought of it in a different light. Well I is a surprise and he had a terrific match but we always felt that we're in control of the guy running to with that in the 2nd innings so we're winning so I think we probably had. A notary had a change of just thinking back on it that we thought it was all done and dusted and we were going to easily win the game one miraculous place of calling the dog over. The typical Headingley wicket it clap a little bit but that's no excuse. But I tell you what the pulse of politically and . Especially was sensational in the day you said you were carrying in the car but when you got out of the car No Did you have a nice and off t.v. Or did you just go you know straight to something else. I think we weren't. Carrying a little. We were just again we were shell shocked. Licola to. Just couldn't belie

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