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The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. "We decided that our land mine policy remains in effect," he said. More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia. Human rights groups had expressed hopes that the Obama administration would sign the treaty. Stephen Goose, the director...

Thousands of emeralds are pouring onto world gem markets from the Swat valley in Pakistan, sold to fund the Taliban's jihad against the West.Militants have begun reopening lucrative emerald mines which had been closed by the government, since they took full control of the poor but picturesque region in the north of the country under a controversial peace deal last month. They are using revenue from the sale of the emeralds to help finance attacks on Nato forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, and to support their drive to extend harsh sharia, including public whippings and summary executions, into more regions of...

The wreck of the first US ship sunk during World War II has been revealed in detail for the first time on the seabed off southeastern Australia, researchers said Wednesday. Images of the merchant vessel City of Rayville, which was sunk in 1940 by a German mine, were taken by state-of-the-art sonar technology and remotely operated vehicles, Deakin University scientists said. "It was very exciting to see the City of Rayville for the first time," said lead researcher Daniel Ierodiaconou. The wreck could possibly still contain the remains of the first US sailor to die in the war -- more...

The Princess Diana Memorial Fund has given almost £2million to the Bill Clinton Foundation - even though the former US President betrayed a promise he made to Diana to ban landmines. The news has shocked the Princess’s many supporters who still remember how, despite his pledge, Mr Clinton ultimately bowed to Pentagon pressure and refused to sign a treaty forbidding use of the weapons. The US still uses landmines in hotspots such as the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea. Under the Clinton administration, American agents also bugged Diana’s phone calls when she stayed with her friend Lucia Fletcher...

ZIMBABWE'S gold deliveries fell 181,6 percent last month compared to the same period last year. According to the Chamber of Mines, gold output for October was 125 kilogrammes, down from 352kg last year.

An ancient copper works in Jordan may have been the location of the fabled King Solomon’s mines, new archaeological investigations suggest. The dig at Khirbat al-Nahas, once a thriving copper production centre in the Faynan district, about 30 miles (50km) south of the Dead Sea, has found evidence that it dates back to the 10th century BC, making it at least two centuries older than was thought. The new date means that the mine was almost certainly active during the time of the biblical Jewish kings David and Solomon. Scientists who conducted the excavations are now working to establish whether...

WASHINGTON — Texas congressmen, citing skyrocketing costs to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, said Thursday they would push the next presidential administration for more cost-effective measures to control drug smuggling and illegal immigration. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, made the comments after a Rio Grande flyover to view efforts on the ground by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Let's regroup and provide border security in a smart way and not just waste the taxpayers' dollars,” Cuellar said. McCaul called for more state and local funding to bolster law enforcement efforts, saying, “What spills...

Soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division's Sapper Platoon observe members of the Iraqi Army as they learn to operate the military anti-mine vehicle, the Buffalo. Photo by Spc. Jason Jordan, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Public Affairs. KIRKUK — Soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division’s Sapper Platoon recently conducted the ‘The Iron Claw Academy’; where members of the Iraqi Army (IA) were trained by in a series of ‘left seat-right seat’ exercises that taught the IA how to conduct route clearance operations to make local roads secure for travel. “Iraqi security forces have been doing a phenomenal job...

Gold mines closed by power cuts By Sebastien Berger Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 26/01/2008 Traffic lights stop working in Cape Town as a result of power cuts, increasing congestion in city centres Five gold mining companies suspended operations in South Africa yesterday after Eskom, the state electricity utility company, said that it could not guarantee power. Thursday was the worst day for power cuts, which are blamed on under-investment in the past and poor maintenance. A government minister called the situation a national emergency. Homes can be plunged into darkness three times a day for several hours without warning. Congestion...

An Afghan provincial police chief says authorities have discovered a weapons cache in western Afghanistan containing 130 land mines of different types that appear to have been imported from Iran. The cache includes about 40 sophisticated remote-controlled mines. It was discovered in the Anardar district of Farah Province near the Iranian border. Farah's provincial police chief, General Khail Shairbaz, told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan today that the cache was found in the house of a Taliban commander named Mullah Abdul Ghani. Shairbaz says the mines were brought to the province recently. It is the latest in a series of discoveries...

Analysis: Military imbalance in the Taiwan Strait HONG KONG, Aug. 31 ANDREI CHANG During the past seven to 10 years China's rapid buildup of military power has tipped the balance in the Taiwan Strait strongly in its favor. Since 1999, when former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui announced his "two states" theory -- daring to say that the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China are two different states, precipitating the PRC's aggressive stance against the island's independence -- there have been drastic changes in the balance of military power on the two sides. This includes the navies, air...

ROLLA, Mo. — Camp Winnigootchee was never like this. A group of high school students stood at the edge of a limestone quarry last month as three air horn blasts warned that something big was about to go boom. Across the quarry, with a roar and a cloud of dust and smoke, a 50-foot-high wall of rock sloughed away with a shudder and a long crashing fall, and 20,000 tons of rock was suddenly on the ground. The campers laughed. “That’s cool!” said Ian Dalton, a student from Camdenton, Mo. Austin Shoemaker, a student from Macon, Mo., concurred. “It was...

SASABE, Ariz., June 21 — If the effort to catch people illegally crossing the border here in the southern Arizona desert is a cat-and-mouse struggle, the Homeland Security Department says it has a smarter cat. It comes in the form of nine nearly 100-foot-tall towers with radar, high-definition cameras and other equipment rising from the mesquite and lava fields around this tiny town.Known as Project 28, for the 28 miles of border that the towers will scan, the so-called virtual fence forms the backbone of the Secure Border Initiative, known as SBInet, a multibillion-dollar mix of technology, manpower and...

Just saw on Fox that the IDF is monitoring unusual activity on Syrian border in the Golan Heights...tanks there, they are removing land mines at the border...not up on their website yet

A former U.S. Army corporal who served in Iraq shortly after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 until the Summer of 2004 has published a book called "American, Interrupted." More importantly, he recently published two videos on his website depicting European weapons and NBC equipment. In one video, the "Made in France" stamp can be clearly seen inside an Iraqi heavy tank. Another video shows Italian mines, German chemicals, and German NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) equipment at an officers college in Baghdad. Video also shows medical supplies captured by Muqtadr Al-Sadr's militias that were intended for Iraqi hospitals. 10 other...

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BOGOTA, Colombia - Watch out Fido — your days on the force may be numbered. Out for your job are Lola and Espejo, two whiskered, red-eyed rats that police in Colombia are training to sniff out bombs and land mines. The two rodents are part of an experimental six-rat squadron that police are preparing for dangerous missions to defuse the more than 100,000 land mines that litter Colombia's countryside after four decades of war between the government and leftist rebels. Unlike dogs, rats weighing less than half a pound each and "don't trigger any explosions when they walk on a...

COAL RUN, Ky. - Sidney Coal Co. President Charlie Bearse was expressing an opinion that many in these mountains secretly share. Problem was, he put that opinion in writing. "It is common knowledge that the work ethic of the Eastern Kentucky worker has declined from where it once was," Bearse wrote to the state mining board. Bad attitudes and drug abuse, he argued, were affecting attendance, "and, ultimately, productivity." Bearse's appeal to the board: Relax an English-only policy in the mines so he could bring in Hispanic workers. U.S. companies are constantly complaining they need migrant workers to do the...

It is often said that the really tough guys are the ones who get up and go to work every day. Without doubt, it is a group of really tough guys who go down into the mines everyday, out of sight and out of mind to too many of us, we who live in the day light and only think of them when something goes haywire, underground, in a faraway state.

Why is it taking so long to design, develop, produce, and deploy — in adequate numbers — a troop-transporting armored vehicle that would replace the up-armored Humvee in Iraq? I've been asked that question time and again, not by soldiers and Marines who ride in Humvees daily, but by fellow journalists, many of whom have logged time in Iraq or Afghanistan. One reporter said to me it was "criminal negligence" on the part of the White House and the Defense Department. Another referred to it as "the ultimate betrayal" of our soldiers. Despite their time in country, both reporters are...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday his government was cancelling all mining concessions and would not award any new deals to transnational companies as part of a wider sector restructuring. "Recently ... we decided, after looking at this and looking at that, to cancel all mining concessions. We will not give any more concessions to transnationals," Chavez said in a speech late on Wednesday. Left-winger Chavez has launched a broad campaign to review energy and mineral contracts signed by Venezuela before he first won office in 1998. He says some of the deals are robbing the world's No....

UNITED NATIONS - Zimbabwe's embattled and isolated leader said Friday that his government will take a stake in privately operated mining enterprises in the mineral-rich southern African nation, but he does not intend to nationalize the industry as he has commercial farmland. In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Robert Mugabe claimed his people — including hundreds of thousands made homeless by a recent controversial slum clearance and others facing famine because of disastrous land reform — are "very, very happy." Mugabe, 81, who has ruled since a guerrilla war brought independence 25 years ago, said he plans...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is close to deciding whether to produce a new generation of land mines, but the system is drawing fire from critics who say the military is ignoring international sentiment against such weapons. Underscoring the unpopularity of the devices, defense officials working on the program, called Spider, declined to call the weapon a land mine. They opted instead for generic descriptions like ``networked munitions.'' The Spider has the same function as a field of land mines - to prevent anyone from crossing a piece of territory, either by killing them or scaring them away. But unlike...

The U.S. Army's Buffalo boasts a robotic arm tipped with a pitchfork-like hand and a camera for seeing into hard-to-reach areas during the search for improvised explosive devices. BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 10, 2005 — Looking like a creation from the TV show “Monster Garage,” 1st Battalion, 64th Armor’s Buffalo lumbers down the streets of Baghdad, searching for improvised explosive devices. The Buffalo stands far taller than a tank and boasts a robotic arm tipped with a pitchfork-like hand and a camera for seeing into hard-to-reach areas. “We travel slowly along our routes, looking out the windows for anything suspicious,” said...

The U.S. is introducing a new technology into the fight in Iraq that counteracts the effect of improvised explosive devices and bombs by making them ignite prematurely. It could slash the number of successful insurgent attacks, contends a top Marine Corps commander who is returning to combat there. The current goal is to find a way "to not jam, but to pre-detonate" IEDs or vehicle-borne bombs, says Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "For the moment that you're coming by [a bomb], if you jam the circuitry, you prevent the IED from going off,...

EARTH'S natural radioactivity has been measured for the first time. The measurement will help geologists find out to what extent nuclear decay is responsible for the immense quantity of heat generated by Earth. Our planet's heat output drives the convection currents that churn liquid iron in the outer core, giving rise to Earth's magnetic field. Just where this heat comes from is a big question. Measurements of the temperature gradients across rocks in mines and boreholes have led geologists to estimate that the planet is internally generating between 30 and 44 terawatts of heat. Some of this heat comes from...

U.S. MARINE CORPS FORCES PACIFIC, CAMP H. M. SMITH, Hawaii (June 24, 2005) -- “Block off all their main and secondary supply lines for these are their main arteries, and ambush them along those routes for they are exposed and easy prey.” These words from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were cited by the Winds of Change website, showing the real danger for convoys traveling Marine supply lines in Iraq. There have been 341 Marines killed in action and 4,099 wounded in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom since February 16, 2004. How many of these fatalities and casualties have been caused by...

March 18, 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Central Command Area of Responsibility: Sgt. Andrew Garrett (left) and K-Dog (the Bottle-nosed Dolphin in mid-air) of Commander Task Unit 55.4.3 (CTU-5.4.3) during a training session in the Arabian Gulf. CTU-5.4.3 conducts very risky deep/shallow water mine countermeasure operations to clear shipping lanes for humanitarian relief. PhotographerPhotographer's Mate 1st Class Brien Aho, United States Navy (USN), http://www.Navy.milBig imagehttp://www.news.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/030318-N-5319A-002.jpgCreditsCaption: http://www.news.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=5691Photo as sized above: http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20050530.htm

KABUL, Afghanistan (Army News Service, May 13, 2005) – Two Soldiers at the Kabul Military Training Center were awarded the Army Commendation Medal with Valor device May 5 for saving the life of an Afghan soldier. Staff Sgt. Scott Erhman and Staff Sgt. David Dixon of the 136th Regional Training Center received the award for actions that saved an Afghan National Army soldier who stepped on a land mine near KMTC. KMTC is the schoolhouse for the ANA and much of the training is conducted on the surrounding ranges. Minefields are a reminder that KMTC was once occupied by the...

At least 14 miners were killed when a gas explosion tore through a coal mine in Heshun County of north China's Shanxi Province, media reports said on Sunday. The blast occurred at the No. 2 pit of the Longhua Colliery of the county on Friday, when 31 miners were working underground. The blast killed 14 miners on the spot while 16 others managed to escape. There is still one miner missing, China Central Television reported. Officials from the provincial coal mine safety administration and local authorities are overseeing the rescue and relief operations. China has witnessed major coal mine accidents...

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Human Rights Watch raised a red flag over US plans to deploy a new system of remote-controlled anti-personnel mines in Iraq (news - web sites). The New York-based rights watchdog said the US Army had failed to answer critical questions regarding the potential harm the mines might pose to civilians. The new system, called Matrix, allows a soldier with a laptop computer to detonate Claymore mines remotely via radio signal from several kilometers away. While Claymores normally propel lethal fragments from 40 to 60 meters (130-200 feet) across a 60-degree arc, Human Right Watch said US Army...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Human Rights Watch raised a red flag over US plans to deploy a new system of remote-controlled anti-personnel mines in Iraq. The New York-based rights watchdog said the US Army had failed to answer critical questions regarding the potential harm the mines might pose to civilians. The new system, called Matrix, allows a soldier with a laptop computer to detonate Claymore mines remotely via radio signal from several kilometers away. While Claymores normally propel lethal fragments from 40 to 60 meters (130-200 feet) across a 60-degree arc, Human Right Watch said US Army tests indicated that the...

Already haunted by fears of a new tsunami or spread of disease, survivors picking through debris to recover corpses at Sri Lanka's northern tip face a new danger - floating landmines. Nestled near a border dividing the north between Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels, the area around the small fishing village of Point Pedro - devastated by Sunday's tsunami - is now littered with plastic landmines uprooted by floodwaters. "There are land mines spread all over. Many of them have moved, hundreds are floating," said Sinnathurai Kathiravelpillai, a district medical officer working near Point Pedro. Mine disposal units estimate...

Genetically Engineered Plants Detect Land Mines (look under 11/29/2004 entry) “A Danish company, Aresa Biodetection, has developed genetically-modified flowers that change color when their roots come in contact with nitrogen dioxide in the soil. Explosives used in mines produce NO2 as the chemicals gradually decay. The company plans to sow fields of NO2-sniffing Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale or mouse cress) in areas riddled with long-forgotten ordinance from Angola to Cambodia. The effort's life- and limb-saving potential is staggering: More than 100 million land mines kill or injure 26,000 people in 45 countries each year. Today's most popular detection method is poking...

THE Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, wants Germany to pay millions of pounds in compensation for landmines left in the desert sands by Afrika Corps troops commanded by Rommel in the Second World War.Berlin, which only recently brokered compensation payments from Tripoli for the Libyan-backed terrorist blast at the La Belle disco in the city in 1986, is said to be shocked by the demand. The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, is in Libya now, trying to negotiate trade deals worth billions for his country. Officials say he has been "thrown" by the suggestion that Germany should compensate for a war...

Something started bothering me tonight about Kerry's action reports -- MINES. Only in action's involving LTJG Kerry do we find reports of mines detonating without contact near Kerry's boat. How is it LTJG Kerry is the only skipper of a swift boat who encounters mines that mysteriously detonate before a boat actually runs over it? There is one exception of course, and that is PCF-3 which all documentation makes clear that a mine had detonated under it after running over it. Going over the entire chronology of COSDIV 11 you won't find anyone reporting mines detonating near a swift...

Mine Killing in the Arabian Gulf Sailors assigned to the mine countermeasure ship USS Dextrous lower an AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization Vehicle into the Arabian Gulf, July 28, 2004. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Sandberg lllllllllllll Sailors assigned to the mine countermeasure ship USS Dextrous lower an AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization Vehicle into the Arabian Gulf, July 28, 2004. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Sandberg lllllllllllll Sailors assigned to the mine countermeasure ship USS Dextrous lower an AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization Vehicle into the Arabian Gulf, July 28, 2004. U.S. Navy photo by Petty...

Diplomats Honored For Dissent Envoys Challenged Bush Foreign Policy By Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 28, 2004; Page A19 Budapest is a long way from Baghdad, but in May 2003, a U.S. Foreign Service officer in the Hungarian capital became convinced that American policy in Iraq was going awry. And he spoke up. In a cable routed through the State Department's "dissent channel," Keith W. Mines argued a case -- long rejected by the White House -- that the United Nations should be given control over Iraq's political transition. "There is no value in imposing an American...

SHINKOLOBWE, Congo (AP) - Business is booming in the mining zone that supplied uranium for the atomic bombs unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - despite a decree by Congo's president banning all mining activity here. President Joseph Kabila ordered the zone closed three months ago amid growing concerns that unregulated nuclear materials could get into the hands of so-called rogue nations or terrorist groups. Yet 1,000 miles away from the capital, Kinshasa, thousands of diggers are still hacking away at a dark cavity of open earth in this southeastern village, filling thousands of burlap sacks a day with black soil...

Most Americans are paying a lot of attention to the fighting going on in Iraq. We cringe at the US casualties and pray America is doing everything it can to protect our troops. In the city of Fallujah, US Marines have been fighting block by block to secure and neutralize the enemy that infest this city. The US Army has fought off repeated ground attacks against several US bases in the Sunni Triangle. Marines in Fallujah are putting broken glass and other trash in front of their positions in hopes that they can hear the enemy coming and get a...

TIRANA, May 17 (Reuters) - Four Albanians were killed by a landmine explosion near a remote village in northern Albania on the border with Macedonia, police said on Monday. Three brothers aged 13, 15, 20 and a 38-year-old were gathering medicinal herbs about 1.5 km (one mile) from the border when they were blown to pieces by the device, which blasted out a three-metre (10-foot) deep crater on Sunday. The mine was probably a leftover from the 2001 conflict between ethnic Albanians and the Macedonian government. The boys' father told police it was "as big as the wheel of a...

Dear Editor, How many dead American soldiers are worth a politician’s picture with a Princess? Most Americans are paying a lot of attention to the fighting going on in Iraq. We cringe at the US casualties and pray America is doing everything it can to protect our troops. In the city of Fallujah, US Marines have been fighting block by block to secure and neutralize the enemy that infest this city. The US Army has fought off repeated ground attacks against several US bases in the Sunni Triangle. Marines in Fallujah are putting broken glass and other trash in front...

Iraq: Deminers Clear 1 Million Mines, Bombs From North, But Daunting Task Remains By Charles Recknagel Deminers say they have cleared 1 million mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance in northern Iraq since the toppling of Saddam Hussein a year ago. That is noteworthy progress toward removing a menace that today kills or injures at least 20 people a month in the area. But it also is a measure of how much still remains to be done. Prague, 26 March 2004 (RFE/RL) -- The largest international demining organization working in northern Iraq says it has cleared and destroyed 1 million...

US to Alter Land Mine Policy By Joshua Kucera, JDW Staff Reporter, Washington, DC The US announced on 27 February that it would continue to use some land mines indefinitely and would not sign an international treaty outlawing the weapons, reversing the position of the previous administration. The Bush administration said it would allow the military to continue to use 'smart' land mines, which can be deactivated when a conflict is over. It also said it would continue to use the more traditional persistent land mines until 2010 on the Korean peninsula, rather than 2006 as was the policy of...

Bush Administration to End U.S. Use of Land Mines Not Set to Self-Destruct, Won't Join Treaty Feb 26, 2004 By Barry Schweid / The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration intends to end the U.S. military's use of land mines that are not timed to self-destruct but will not sign a 150-nation anti-land mine treaty, a senior administration official said Thursday. The new policy also will double, to $70 million, what the United States spends annually to locate and remove mines considered hazards to people and serving no deterrent purpose, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity....

Beijing-AP -- The death toll in a coal mine explosion in northeastern China has reached at least 24. And officials hold little hope on the fate of 13 other trapped miners. Rescuers are hindered by poisonous gas and piles of rubble at the mine. The explosion occurred early Monday. China's coal mining industry is considered the world's deadliest.

Scientists have created a plant that can locate landmines by changing colour when it comes into contact with explosives, a breakthrough they hope will save thousands of lives. The plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, or green wall cress, is cheap to produce and can grow from seed in six to eight weeks. Molecular biologists from the Danish company Aresa modified the plant's genetic structure so its leaves change from green to red when its roots come into contact with nitrogen dioxide, a chemical discharged from explosives when they are buried in soil. The colour change will allow mines or explosive residue to...

The U.S. Navy, which has long avoided dealing with it's greatest danger; naval mines, believes it has found the answer. Instead of the current system, where a small force of mine clearing ships and helicopters are kept in readiness at a base in the United States, new mine clearing equipment will be on warships at all times. Currently, it can take days or weeks to get mine clearing equipment to ships overseas that need it. For more intense mine clearing, the current two dozen mine hunter ships will eventually be replaced by LCS (Littoral Control Ships) carrying mine hunting and...

Al-qaeda blueprint exposedBy Ben English, Ian Gallagher and Jef Sommerfield December 29, 2003AL-QAEDA has turned its terror sights to the sea, targeting luxury cruise liners in an expansion of its "jihad" against the West. Liners like the Queen Mary 2 are under threat Owners of the recently launched $1.3 billion Queen Mary 2 yesterday confirmed threats of terror hang over its maiden voyage early next year. The Osama bin-Laden terrorist group is also adopting new tactics to destroy commercial aircraft. British MP Patrick Mercer has revealed Saudi authorities arrested two Islamic suicide pilots. He said the pilots were preparing to...