"Although the evidence makes it entirely clear that on a balance of probabilities Miss Vye could have been found sooner, it remains unknown whether the circumstances in which she was found would have been different".

BBC: Sally Ann Vye

Enough, BP says, to settle all the claims of residents and businesses along the Gulf Coast and pay unknown billions in fees to lawyers who refused to miss out on the largest environmental tort in U.S. history.

FORBES: BP Settles With Plaintiff Lawyers, Pegs Cost At $7.8 Billion

Moreover, the Jordanian near-miss underscores the point that we should take no comfort from the fact that the status of such weapons is unknown, since some of them may wind up being used outside Iraq.

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