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Buried mines and ordnance continue to maim Iraqi civilians.
Byline: Dogen Hannah
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq _ Fifteen-year-old Zana Hussein Mahmood was shepherding cattle when he found an intriguing finger-sized metal tube. Nine-year-old Arjan Mohammed Hussein was digging in the yard when he found one.
Both boys paid dearly for their discoveries.
The tubes exploded. Mahmood lost the tips of two fingers on his right hand and shrapnel peppered his face and right shoulder. Hussein lost his right hand.
Though the Iraq-Iran war ended almost 16 years ago, millions of land mines and detonators like those that injured Zana and Arjan remain implanted along the roughly 1,000-mile border between the two countries.
Unexploded mines _ along with ordnance from that war and a little from the U.S.-led invasion _ are taking a toll in Iraq, especially in the high mountains and broad valleys of ...
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