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But two weeks later Brown defied military opposition and went ahead in banning British cluster munitions.
But the Saudis have admitted using British cluster weapons, albeit outside civilian areas and in line with international humanitarian law of proportionality.
Yet, if American and British cluster bombs are currently killing thousands, President Saddam in the past has killed hundreds of thousands.
The defence secretary will make a statement on Monday afternoon, more than six months after the Ministry of Defence said it would urgently investigate allegations in an Amnesty International report that British cluster munitions had been deployed.
The Financial Times reported a Whitehall official as saying: "It has been known for some time inside the system that this was a British cluster bomb and at some point we are going to have to come clean about it".
At the very least there will be questions for the British government to answer about when it became aware that the Saudis were using British cluster bombs supplied as long ago as the 1980s.
Defence secretary Michael Fallon has admitted that British-made cluster bombs were used by the Saudi armed forces in Yemen.
But then, in May, Amnesty International published evidence that a British-made cluster bomb had been used by the Saudi coalition in northern Yemen.
Theresa May must explain why it took so long for the government to establish that British-made cluster bombs banned by an international treaty were dropped by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Jeremy Corbyn has said.
The defence secretary was forced to tell the Commons that British-made cluster bombs had been dropped by Saudi Arabia in Yemen, prompting MPs and charities to say that the UK should stop supporting the Gulf state's military action.
The UK and Saudi Arabia claimed they not have broken the law after the Saudi government, under pressure from the Guardian, finally confirmed that it has used British-supplied cluster munitions in Yemen.
