Bombs dropped on Reef raise alarm bells
Submitted by kimk on Tue, 23/07/2013 - 7:25pm Friends of the Earth Brisbane is alarmed at the disclosure that two US Harriet jets have dumped 500 pound bombs on the Great Barrier Reef earlier this week. (article below and at:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/19/.UeoUfym4zA0.twitter )
The US Marine jets are in Australia participating in US-Australia joint military exercise Talisman Saber, which sees 18,000 US and 9,000 Australian troops engaging in combined land, sea and air training, primarily at Shoalwater Bay, just north of Rockhampton in central Queensland.
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