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2005-10-21 Afghanistan-Pak-India

''Quake may have shifted Kashmir landmines''

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Please stop this stupidity. Only asshats buy this stuff. Military use of landmines doesn't cause the issues that are being complained about. India and Pakistan know where their mines are.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-10-21 01:18|| 2005-10-21 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Sock old buddy, you're missing the potential here. I'd get my special forces guys to get into the area, real quiet like, and put down some mines in the places where the jihadis like to roam. When they go 'boom!', shrug your shoulders and sigh, "oh, that one must have shifted. Where do we send the flowers?"

Posted by Steve White 2005-10-21 01:33|| 2005-10-21 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Shhh, Steve. It's a secwet....be vewwy vewwy quiet. We are pwanting boom daisies as you speak........shhhhhh.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-10-21 04:08|| 2005-10-21 04:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Haven't figured out if this is a bug or a feature. I guess it depends on who steps on them...

Posted by Halliburton: Earthquake/Tsunami Division 2005-10-21 06:59|| 2005-10-21 06:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Howcome...
if you step on one it will go off, but being bounced around in a landslide won't set it off?

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-10-21 08:46|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-10-21 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Umm ... I was hoping the quake crushed a number of Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives.

Posted by Jim Marrs Nail File 2005-10-21 14:23|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-10-21 14:23|| Front Page Top

#7 What a load of clod-whollop. Both sides know where the minefields were. They can easily plot slide areas and determine if any mines were displaced. They know where the slides ended up. If any mines survived the slide, and weren't buried 70 or 80 feet down, they MAY pose a problem to someone who is where they shouldn't be. Nobody in their right mind is going to go playing around the bottom of a landslide area, because more stuff can fall at any second. This is just another case of Greenpeace trying to get publicity by spewing some radical, near-impossible disaster scenario to try to leverage more political power.

If it's really, REALLY dangerous as these turkeys say, why don't THEY go pick up these "displaced mines"?

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-10-21 15:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-10-21 15:54|| Front Page Top

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