Unexploded bomblets a danger in Lebanon
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Hamid Asan Hasan dropped his wallet, and as he stooped to pick it up he spotted the small round object. Curious, he picked that up too. It exploded and blew off part of his hand.
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Security along the Lebanon-Syria border is too lax to prevent arms smuggling and Lebanon should quickly establish a mobile force to intercept any weapons, a U.N.-appointed team said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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Israeli warplanes attacked suspected Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese security officials said. The raid came after the guerrillas said they blew up an Israeli bulldozer in a disputed area near the border, reportedly causing casualties.
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Clearing unexploded cluster bombs used   by Israel in Lebanon during the month-long war, many of them   U.S.-manufactured, could take 10 years, a British-based   demining group said on Friday.
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ZEBQIN, Lebanon  - At the bottom of a deep pit gouged by a bulldozer, a Chinese soldier in a protective visor shovels aside earth to reveal an unexploded bomb left over from Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in south Lebanon.
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"The UNIFIL mission has been very important in helping to bring about an end to the Lebanon war of last summer and helping to bring security so that the people of Lebanon could return to normal life"  A bomb apparently targeting a U.N. personnel carrier exploded by the side of a road in southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing five peacekeepers and injuring three, officials said.Spanish Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said the five included three Colombians and two Spaniards. The three injured peacekeepers were also from Spain, he said.'The mostly likely cause of this attack has been an explosion of a car bomb or device activated by remote control. It has been a premeditated attack,' he told reporters in Madrid, ruling out that a land mine caused the blast. Read more
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The United Nations nuclear agency warned yesterday that nearly 400 tons of missing explosives could be in the hands of insurgents who have been targeting US-led forces in Iraq for months.
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JERUSALEM -- Militants in Lebanon fired at least two rockets into Israel yesterday, causing no casualties and little damage, but raising the possibility of a new flare-up on the volatile border less than a year after Israel's bloody monthlong war against Hezbollah.
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KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel  - Suspected Palestinian militants in Lebanon hit a northern Israeli town with two Katyusha rockets on Sunday, Lebanese and Israeli officials said. No one was hurt.
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THE United Nations atomic watchdog confirmed last night that huge amounts of conventional explosives that have disappeared from an Iraqi military facility could be used to set off a nuclear bomb.
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Israel scattered at least 350,000   unexploded cluster bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with   Hizbollah, mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a   deadly legacy for civilians, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of tonnes of powerful explosives that could be used in conventional missiles, or as a trigger for nuclear devices, has disappeared from a military installation in Iraq left unguarded by the US military, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Four Lebanese soldiers were killed on Friday by an explosion in a building booby trapped by Islamist militants at a Palestinian camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon AP) &#151; A bomb hit a U.N. peacekeeping force patrol on a coastal road in southern Lebanon on Monday, a Lebanese security official said, the second such attack targeting the force in less than a month.
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Lebanon's military on Friday launched a new artillery attack on a Palestinian refugee camp north of Tripoli where Islamic militants have been holed up.
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The UN nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that nearly 400 tons of powerful explosives that could be used in conventional or nuclear missiles disappeared from an unguarded military installation in Iraq.