The devices depicted in the photographs were subsequently identified as cluster munitions by a weapons experts at Human Rights Watch.
The deployment of depleted uranium munitions by coalition forces throughout Iraq will impact that nation literally for centuries.
LMAC wants to clear all cluster munitions by 2016 and almost all land mines by 2020.However, it is likely to miss those deadlines.
Both of these so-called indiscriminate weapons, which strike large areas with a dense succession of high-explosive munitions, by their nature cannot be fired precisely.
"We do not believe that the UK government can meet its obligations under the convention on cluster munitions by relying on assurances from the Saudis," the report said.
Efforts to ban these weapons resulted in the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits all use, stockpiling, and production of cluster munitions by ratifying countries; it went into force in August 2010.
"If you are hosting rebels, preparing them against me, supporting them by munitions, by salaries, by everything, by training, by giving them all facilities, what shall I wait for?
And so, to passing eyes, this might be seen as a timely and menacing repurposing of government munitions by a rebel force that is gaining technical savvy as it moves toward Tripoli.
10.49am BST Chemical weapons inspections Inspectors from an international watchdog on chemical weapons will begin inspecting Syria's stockpile of toxic munitions by Tuesday, according to a draft agreement obtained by Reuters.
Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials.
