From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Laying mines on your territory is a defensive act. Laying it on someone
else's land esp when the rationale is a short attack followed by a
withdrawal is an aggressive act.

Doing so & then once peace has returned "forgetting to
inform" is criminal.

I am still amazed at just how out of control the IDF is/was.

To be trying to deny it even now when the mines are new & the models
etc of mines are Israeli is astonishing.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/792450.html

""It could be a Hezbollah or Syrian land mine and the land mine
might not even be from the latest conflict," the officials said,
speaking on condition of anonymity because the inquiry into the incident
was still at an initial stage.

The officials, however, were evasive when asked whether Israel had laid new
mines in Lebanon this summer.
"

"Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the UN agency, said its experts found
the land mines and were able to tell they were new Israeli anti-personnel
mines based on their "type, shape and condition."

"The entire area where the mine fields were found had been cleared by
agency experts between 2002 and 2004, so clearly these are new ones,"
Farran said.

The report by the UN agency follows its investigation of a land mine
explosion Friday that wounded two European disposal experts and a Lebanese
medic.

The detonating object was an Israeli anti-personnel land mine placed in a
mine field newly laid during the fighting in July and August, the UN Mine
Action Coordination Center in south Lebanon said in a statement. "

""This is the first evidence we have that the Israeli forces laid
new mines in south Lebanon in 2006," the statement said.

Friday's blast seriously wounded ordnance disposal experts David Alderson
of Britain and Damir Paradzik of Bosnia - both of whom lost a foot - and a
Lebanese medic, as they tried to rescue a shepherd from an unmarked
minefield in the village of Deir Mimas, three kilometers northwest of the
Israeli border.

Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the center, said the shepherd had led a
herd of goats into an unmarked minefield when one of the animals detonated
a land mine. Alderson, Paradzik and the medic heard the explosion, and on
trying to help the shepherd, inadvertently detonated a second land mine.

The shepherd was unscathed.

The three wounded men worked for ArmorGroup, a London-based global risk
management service that has been clearing unexploded ordnance and cluster
bombs in south Lebanon since September for the center.

Lebanon has long called for Israel to hand over maps of the minefields."

Adam

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