Labels:text | screenshot | display | font OCR: The risks & joys of beachcombing 05/01 - Top Secret - 0:00:40 THE RISKS AND JOYS OF BEACHCOMBING, As he speaks, eight paratroopers put on helmets, olive-green Kevlar leggings and flak jackets to begin their Captain Edmond Blatt, 39 has mine morning's work. Before the mine search clearing in his blood. "My father, begins, plastic explosives are used to Henri was a demineur before me, with destroy yesterday's haul: 135 mines the same unit," he says. "I guess I found in a 100-m strip of beach just always knew I would do it." Blatt across the street from the U.S. joined the French army at 18. Now he embassy. Residents of the commands a company from the 17th neighbourhood have become accustomed to Parachute Engineering Regiment, the morning blast. assigned to rid Kuwaiti beaches of mines, laid by the Iraqi army. The men in protective clothing begin "There's a certain risk to mine their painstaking work. Unlike the war clearing," says Blatt. "It's a that came before, the mine-clearing calculated risk, but that's one of the operation is decidedly low tech. The joys of life," paratroopers get down on their hands and knees and search for the mines MENU
