Unexploded Afghan Ammo a Threat to Kids
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FRIDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- Unexploded ammunition, weapons and other military ordnance cause more injuries and deaths in Afghanistan than land mines, especially among children, says a study in the Jan. 8 issue of the British Medical Journal.
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SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan -- In a small, sunlit parlor last week, 20 little girls seated on rush mats sketched a flower drawn on the blackboard. In a darker interior room, 15 slightly older girls memorized passages from the Koran, reciting aloud. Upstairs was a class of teenage girls, hidden from public view.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. - Two young siblings playing in the woods near their home found a small, inactive military practice bomb. The device was found Saturday and after the children dragged it to their house, authorities identified it as an inactive military round, WCSC-TV reported.
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Toxic chemicals spewed from Russian rocket launches in Kazakhstan are responsible for higher illness levels among children living in polluted villages nearby, according to a report published in a British science journal.
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Science & environment: Scientists look for uses for highly toxic material amid fears huge stockpiles may become terrorist targets
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR, NJ Nov 4, 2004 - A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Thursday.
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What a sad story. When innocent children become targets - Palestinian and Israeli children who don&#39;t have bombs strapped to them, who are sitting inside homes or on buses - and we accept this without protest
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Cannibalistic Cabbage Patch Kids vie with the Atomic Energy Lab for Kids containing real U-238 and BB-firing belt buckles for the worst toys sold to gullible mommies and daddies looking for something different for junior. In Table of Malcontents.
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WEST POINT, Utah - A bus driver called police when he saw a student carrying what turned out to be a replica of a Civil War-era rifle that had been displayed in class all year. The call led to a 47-minute lockdown at West Point Junior High School and two elementary schools.
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Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies.
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SDEROT, Israel  - First you hear the whistle. Then  the boom. Hugging tight her 8-year-old daughter, Maia Oriloh is  terrified to leave her home in the Israeli town of Sderot after  a rocket fired from Gaza hit yards away. Neighbor Ruthi Levy  wakes in panic at the slightest noise.
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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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NEW YORK, NY -- OCTOBER 29 -- When the New York Times reported on Monday (10/25/04) that over 300 tons of high-explosive materials appeared to be missing from an Iraqi weapons facility, it was no surprise that the Bush administration and conservative
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters have seized 18 Afghan mine-clearing specialists and threatened to kill them if investigations suggest they are working for US-led forces in the country, officials and the insurgents said yesterday.
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Revelations that nearly 400 tons of conventional explosives have disappeared in Iraq have experts worrying that other weapons might also be in jeopardy of falling into insurgent or terrorist hands.
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The stockpile, a secret that only now is coming fully to light, is worrisome to U.S. officials because it represents one of scores of poorly secured weapons caches worldwide that could be exploited by terrorists.
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An Army unit removed 250 tons of ammunition from the Qaqaa weapons depot in April 2003 and later destroyed it, the company's former commander said. A Pentagon spokesman asserted that some was of the same type as the missing explosives that have become a major issue in the presidential campaign.