"Land mines and unexploded ordnance killed or injured an average of two Iraqis every week "
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"Land mines’ grim legacy plagues Iraq" April 06, 2011|Associated Press
BAGHDAD — Twenty-five percent of the world’s unexploded land mines are buried in Iraq, making it one of the most contaminated countries, the environment ministry said yesterday. More than 20 million mines are scattered in the war-plagued nation, deputy environment minister Kamal Hussein Latif said....
Many of the land mines date to the 1960s, when Iraq launched military operations to quell the Kurdish rebellion in the north. But they also are a legacy of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, when Saddam Hussein’s regime planted them in the desert near the border, along with the first Gulf War in 1991 and the US-led invasion that toppled Hussein in 2003....
Maybe it's true, but notice how the media blames the hated dead guy?
And he planted them when he was an ally. Who sold him the s***, 'eh?
The mines have affected development, particularly in the oil sector because so many mines were laid in the northern Kurdish region, around major oil infrastructure.
Iraq will probably clear about 70 percent of the mines by 2018, but the process is slow because of staff shortages and other problems, Latif said. About 20 private companies and a few nongovernmental organizations assist with the effort.
Always plenty of money to lay 'em though.
Land mines and unexploded ordnance killed or injured an average of two Iraqis every week in 2009, the UN says....
Violence has dropped dramatically in Iraq, but deadly shootings and bombings still occur every day.
Yesterday, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt at a car dealership in northwest Iraq. The blast killed three people and wounded seven.
Monday night, gunmen killed six people sleeping in their home in an Al Qaeda stronghold south of Baghdad. Another legacy of the invasion.
There was no "Al-CIA-Duh" when Saddam was running the place.
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And never you mind the depleted uranium causing gruesome birth defects!
