If we hadn't gone to war, he said, "eventually we'd see chemical arms and those kind of munitions on our streets".
There are many details that remained unclear on Friday night, including how many died, how many were injured, and what kind of munitions were fired: live ammunition, rubber bullets or both.
Blue meant other kinds of munitions.
These firing positions were not ideal, if only because a cinderblock wall will not stop many kinds of munitions in the Qaddafi soldiers' possession.
Until now reporters have seen warplanes that have generally been fitted with a kind of precision munitions guided by lasers aimed by the pilots.
Raee McGrath, spokesman on cluster munitions for the Handicap International Network, studied the use, by US forces, of these kinds of cluster munitions during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But those kind of long-range precision munitions are expensive — and running all the reconnaissance and bomb-damage assessment to see what needs to be hit and what needs to be hit twice can also be a big pain in the ass.
Hansen followed up the discussion with an infamous letter pointing out that the issue of "supplies of munition of a special kind" was not raised during the discussion, but that he had nothing further to add.
Recently, Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's president of three decades, has sent his armed forces to fight in South Sudan, where they stand accused of using banned cluster munitions — precisely the kind of crime that could potentially be addressed at the ACJ.
According to an independent conflict damage assessment report commissioned by VICE News — the first of its kind into cluster munition attacks in eastern Ukraine — the rocket blast that killed DuPasquier outside his workplace, and wounded six more, was fired from the 9K57 Uragan multiple launch rocket system.
