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UK Vacuum Bombs in Afghanistan 
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Britain has used and will continue to use one of the world's most brutal weapons, which creates a pressure wave that sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies, in Afghanistan, The Sunday Times reported on June 22. "We are conscious of the controversial aspects [of this weapon] but it is being used sparingly and under strict circumstances where it is deemed appropriate by the commander on the ground," confirmed the Ministry of Defense (MoD). It has decided to equip British helicopters in Afghanistan with the Hellfire AGM-114N missiles early 2008 after repeated complaints from pilots against the ineffectiveness of normal weapons in the fight against Taliban...
According to The Sunday Times, American Apache pilots used the thermobaric Hellfire in Iraq. Human Rights Watch has condemned and called for a ban on using thermobaric weapons worldwide. The New York-based group describes them as "particularly brutal" and that their blast "makes it virtually impossible for civilians to take shelter."..