June 17, 2005
Finding Land Mines Before Lebanon's Children Do
From a grassy hilltop near the villages of Alman and Shumriyyah, Israeli gunners made life hard for Arab fighters trying to fire rockets into, or infiltrate, Northern Israel. This was one of many artillery positions Israel maintained in the 10-mile-wide security zone that it occupied just inside Lebanon's southern border after its 1982 invasion of the country.
When mounting military losses led Israel to withdraw in 2000, it left something behind: 400,000 land mines. These silent,
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