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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. Mars 2021 / Time Line March 10, 2021
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US, Allies Drop 46 Bombs Per Day for 20 Years, Research Reveals :
The United States has been at war for nearly every year of its existence as
an independent nation, fighting in 227 years of its 244-year history. / :Alan Macleod
March 10, 2021 "Information Clearing House" - "MPN" - The United States and its allies have dropped at
least 326,000 bombs and missiles on countries in the greater Middle East/ North Africa region since 2001.
That is the conclusion of new research by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies of anti-war group
CODEPINK.
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen are the countries that have felt the worst of the violence, but Lebanon,
Libya, Pakistan, Palestine and Somalia have also been targeted. The total amounts to an average of 46
bombs dropped per day over the last 20 years.
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