Thousands of landmines lurk below the surface of Lebanese land Matt Nash, NOW Staff , November 3, 2008 A sapper from the United Arab Emirates removes earth from around anti-tank mine. Approximately 60,000 landmines pepper Lebanon aside from those along the UN-demarcated Blue Line. (AFP/Ramzi Haidar) Landmines left over from the Lebanese civil war and the Israeli occupation – not to be confused with the cluster bombs dropped by Israeli forces during the 2006 July War – have made the news lately by impeding efforts to battle the forest fires that have been ravaging Lebanon’s woodlands over the past two summers, occasionally going off and injuring or killing firefighters. There are currently suspected minefields in all but three (Akkar, Hermel and Beirut) of the Lebanon’s 26 cazas, and only some of these potential...
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