A couple of years later, in Iraq, I dealt with the bloody aftermath of old BLU-97s that exploded years after they were dropped. In 2009, I witnessed the Navy attack an apparent terrorist training camp in Yemen with BLU-97s dropped from special Tomahawk missiles. Then the military tried to deny it, perhaps not realizing that duds would be left behind, definitively pointing to American involvement. Going through the National Archives’s casualty database, I quickly found those seven soldiers’ names. The more I dug, the more names I found of other troops with suspicious or unclear causes of death.

Source: New York Times December 06, 2019 17:48 UTC