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Afghanistan is literally the world's largest minefield - there are some 10 million anti-personnel and anti-tank mines hidden there, which maim or kill more than 20 Afghans a day. And President Bush's stirring speech on Thursday suggests that the administration's campaign to eliminate the Bin Laden terror scourge involves navigating a figurative minefield every bit as dangerous...
Mandela began his series of appearances yesterday when he accompanied Machel to a ceremony at the United Nations honoring her work researching the impact of war on children and fighting to ban anti-personnel mines in her native Mozambique...
Shelton said land mines are vital to the protection of U.S. interests in South Korea; thousands of land mines are scattered throughout the demilitarized zone separating that country from North Korea. He added that anti-personnel mine, scattered between mines designed to destroy advancing tanks were necessary implements of defense policy...
OTTAWA: No need to pity land-mine manufacturers. Even though 125 countries have now signed a treaty banning the anti-personnel weapons, the makers won?t go out of business. There's their old standby the United States, which is refusing to sign up until it is given a special exclusion to plant mines in the Korean DMZ. Not to mention Russia, China, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, who all balked at this landmark treaty...
...TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson reports that the military is aware of the current emotional climate ? but isn't happy with the Oslo accord, and doesn't even think some of its anti-personnel weaponry should be on the table. "It looks like there?s no room for compromise unless Clinton is willing to steamroller the military, which I don?t believe he?s likely to do,? says Thompson...