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- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
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- Subject: Photo -- clearing Bosnian mines
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- Date: 23 Aug 92 11:42:00 GMT
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- Apparently mines are being laid on the surface nowadays. A photo
- in the NY Times Friday, credited to "Brogi/Contrasto/Saba"
- is captioned
-
- "United Nations forces clearing mines last week in the town
- of Banja Luka, Bosnia."
-
- It shows seven mines resting on a street, arrayed in a circle about
- 15 feet in diameter. A soldier has picked up one mine. Another
- soldier is bending down to pick up another. The mines have
- convenient handles for carrying.
-
- This is in accord with a story I saw last week about a the driver
- in a relief supply vehicle who, at a checkpoint, asked the
- soldiers to "clear the mines" so he could proceed, and
- they obliged.
-
- As far as I can tell, mines are not placed with signs next to
- them that say, for example, "This is a mine."
-