Former Labour Minister Lord Gilbert made the plea to drop neutron bombs on Pakistan and Afghans [View all]
It might have seemed likely that when former Labour Minister Lord Gilbert, made the plea to drop neutron bombs on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border, he had been caught by a hidden camera or microphone. However, the remarks were made during a debate in the House of Lords last Thursday (22nd November 2012).
"Your Lordships may say that this is impractical, but nobody lives up in the mountains on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan except for a few goats and a handful of people herding them.
If you told them that some ERRB warheads were going to be dropped there and that it would be a very unpleasant place to go, they would not go there. You would greatly reduce your problem of protecting those borders from infiltration from one side or another.
These things are not talked about, but they should be, because there are great possibilities for deterrence in using the weapons that we already have in that respect."
The news has been largely ignored by the main stream media in the UK but it has been making headlines around the world.
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Not surprised. Quick search of the BBC found nothing.
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