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Almost 100 countries signed a treaty banning cluster bombs--large munitions filled with hundreds of smaller bomblets--on Dec. 3. Unexploded bomblets, which litter dozens of current and former war zones, can kill and maim civilians. Russia, China and the U.S. declined to participate...
...time to go.”“Wot?” squeaked Ollie from beneath three prostitutes. “Ew in the bloody ’ell is in’eruptin my intimate congress wif these gen’le ladies? I swear I will maim you wif my own two hands, I swear—”“Ollie,” said The Stable Boy. “It’s me. I have the money.”“Blazes!” he cried, extracting himself...
...farming land and transport system remain covered by thousands of minefields. Some were planted decades ago by the Portuguese colonial army, others, later, by the forces of the Frelimo government and their South African-backed rebel opponents. The wars may be over, but their ordnance continues to kill and maim Mozambicans and prevent them from farming their land...
Such spectacular incidents overshadow the almost daily clashes between the rival Shi'ite militias that inevitably kill and maim civilians. Diwaniyah now nearly rivals Basra as a vicious free-for-all in the growing civil war among the Shi'a. While none of the recent fighting can be directly linked to any outside group, local security officials say that they can now add to the list of troublemakers elements of al-Qaeda and other Sunni Arab fighters, who appear to be taking advantage of the chaos to regain a toehold in the region and accelerate the flow...
...Among those charged with conspiracy to kill, kidnap and maim, among other accusations, was General Vang Pao, a member of the Hmong minority whose guerrilla forces had been funded by the CIA during the Vietnam War to fight the Viet Cong-aligned communists of the Pathet Lao. Along with an estimated 200,000 Laotian Hmong, Vang Pao fled to the U.S. after America withdrew from Indochina in 1975 and communist forces took over Laos and Vietnam. Now, the 77-year-old ex-CIA operative, along with nine other Laotian-born Americans and a former U.S. Army ranger who served...