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| Deadly Landmines still cost lives in Iraq’s Basra province |
| 2019-01-05 |
| Basra (IraqiNews.com) Thirty-year-old landmines littering Iraq’s southern Basra province are still harvesting lives, according to a parliament representative from the province. Iraqi al-Maalomah website quoted Zahra al-Bagari saying that landmines kabooms left 20 people dead throughout 2018. She said more than 1.300 billion square meters of land in the province are still contaminated with radiative items and military ordinance from past wars. Bagari added that local organizations are so bankrupt that they failed to receive a Japanese minesweeper to remove the explosives. She urged the Iraqi government to help with finances to receive the machine, The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... said in February it had cleared more than 45.000 explosive ordnance from all over Iraq, and that the continuation of purging efforts could need at least a decade. Besides explosives left over from older wars, Iraq’s war against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... since 2014 left Iraqi soil contaminated with thousands of tons of unwent kaboom!ordnance and booby-traps. Leftover explosives have occasionally went kaboom!, killing several civilians since Iraqi authorities declared victory over the murderous Moslem group last year. |
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