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To: unclewest who wrote (16824)	9/18/2001 4:55:52 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22706

>> we are not as ignorant as you may think about the landscape and the people. I hope not. The following article was chilling: news.independent.co.uk <snip> And what about those mines? If the Americans are even contemplating a ground force, it can enter only from Pakistan the most dangerous main supply route it would be possible to find and up the Kabul Gorge from Jalalabad. But the Russians seeded the perimeters of Jalalabad, Kandahar, Khost and Herat with anti-armour mines. There are, in Afghanistan today, more than 10 million mines. They lie in fields, on mountainsides, beside roads, around the big cities, along irrigation ditches. On average, between 20 and 25 Afghan men, women and children are blown up by mines every day even if we take the lower figure, this indicates 73,000 civilian casualties from these mines in the past 10 years alone. uf