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well you know the day after the war was over i came back because my father just think i know what has. gina's summer had passed and that we had one or two groups like this mr mitchell this is our friend. it was last night he stepped on one of their for dinner and the way he thought it was a battery or something. i noticed it and told him the sort of take your foot off that is a cluster bomb. he was surprised the days because we saw our group was full of them but. the most vivid memory is literally driving into these villages. and just seeing
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almost fields of clusters everywhere many of them had sort of failed to explode last problems on the road you have to be careful with that festival. once where a village the wind blew a bed and a handful of them fell on the ground and we just started hearing explosions. make itself it's known it was set up as a result of the occupation of the israelis up into may two thousand when the israelis withdrew they left behind a huge legacy of monks and the united nations saw a need to resolve the movie fame once and therefore the neck is still set up back in two thousand and one you know it's one structure from a nation. and the united nations. down the seas for under the veils of the people i come flooding back with the south back of it when it gets back to the ice. and we're confronted with you know
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hundreds of thousands of unexploded possible. there stay through. the pain carries with it else people walking. proud of how to push it up and over to the right official door in august fourteenth two thousand and six the eleven easy army started clearing the road which sneaked into residential areas so people are going to turn to their homes. that will support night management and conduct quality assurance and we have with us law and international organizations there's a huge market right now for battle area clear because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically shrunk that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is they go to these places they
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will hire local. they were thrown everywhere in front of your house and in the garden in the valley no place was left untouched not even most and churches were spared and train the locals how to do the clearance i was going to be. when i found the first bomb i felt as though i had saved the person. will let the locals basically take ownership because you know they have a vested interest in clearing their homes there's a little something no one in south lebanon. and they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of these weapons. times are difficult smith and i heard that some guys are applying to a company called the cia none of us i think has up at the thought of it this way and i think that it was a good opportunity for most sides i want to see first of all we couldn't go into
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our growth and you know you have cluster bombs second thing so this is my country i like for my country to be beautiful. virgin which is also important as we would be better financially i think it. was all there it is i'll shoot it. that's how it's done right you see how it falls oh my god there it is only about an alley and i don't have the house want to have one as we should while the one love because we've been in the gates for a very long three years of being engaged and no marriage.
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yes we're planning on getting married once we have the money and the only thing holding us back is having a house that's going on for the house we can furnish it move in and live. here where. i swear to you and you didn't hit it i know you can get it it's a scam you get it i'm not. if we don't have a house then we can't get married so. nice where you didn't hit it when fathers why doesn't that mean i got it so yes i see fathers here everywhere. because i'm one of the what i look for work several times and there is nothing else that i should very much we found this company they needed employees so we applied. here we see. the numbers we decided to work at the coalition of the cleaner the hunter for
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almost a little bit. the mr so you keep on working so. well make money and i'm going to house. you know what. let's give them separately away from these thieves. we did well today with the birds they. now will have a rock with the birds it'll be great you know thank goodness but. oh how i wanted. to be.
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on the ground on the farm my peeps not big on this. because. i just missed the first thing to call up a clock so. that's it that's the presentation but if anyone's around they can still get injured twenty meters around everybody gets into. this house was heavily heavily hit you can see the freshman base and they're on the same same thing if you go behind the house. so here you see these from the roof. just gone through the roof. today you can see the hole full. on this blaster he. has been one for. very sharp small fragments. it's company it's very it's one centimeter concrete so
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you can imagine if they come to the human body they want to do it so it's. a cluster munition is basically a container and inside the container you have many many small bombs and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of them with a canister opens over the target each one of them is then going to pull out and they're going to spread out there then going to turn to the bottom because the weights on one hand as they fall through the sky this ribbon is spin and the spinning is what arms the trigger you have a copper concave cone inside of the base that will superheat and shoot out like a hot knife through butter it's going to go through armor. and that's going to end up killing whatever crew is in there. the secondary charge is going to then send out the shrapnel and that's what's going to cause death and injuries. problem is
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they're not made really well and a lot of them not explode. this is a weapon with an after effect these weapons oh ways leave unexploded guards at very high rates so it becomes like a landmine and what we find. we can still find. another well we're still just time to first punch everybody must go to her hands it was part of the bomb she threw it to the ground that she threw it to but who were thrown into the air who was pulling no. time. maybe he's upset because he went to film it. and then. we came back to work to find cluster bombs everywhere in our fields.
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he did it so national we had no choice but to work next to the bombs. good then did i have a field in the area. i landed on the pilot was speaking for it's a cluster bomb exploded. dr lisa kidney and i honestly. the scary thing because from bombs is literally how they've managed to find their way into every aspect of life in southern lebanon. you know from the fields to people's balconies that your backyards on top of people's cars on people's trees it really creates this sort of. sense of insecurity. that you never know when the next one is going to go through.
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when and where is the coffin. of the mourning over your soul so on your list right now and that's the moment now the what's the. i think here we must find the bomb to get. to get it in and it and it will be going from service members all up but overseeing the everywhere we see that it was done. who was very well and the thinkers just. checked. and the question. there and i think you know.
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i told you. because. you're no. fun and so it was a shock. when the clearance teams go in and build basically roped off area and they create cells so that they can then figure out where the weapons are that need to be cleared and prioritize what's going to be taken out break was this it was a case is to close the small. we stuff install got back on the combine do it. and they literally move inch by inch very slowly and very laborious leap in their feet and in area that is filled with high explosive weapons and you know you could
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see the ball moves over there although it's marked. this is the world war i'm forty three and there are environmental things that occur over time from these weapons. if. you and my mom. got rain and the rain comes they start to sink into the earth. a lot of times you know they'll get kind of mixed in with it with garbage and trash the stuff moving about it isn't like. it so it's a nightmare because there's so much metal scrap by the war by the people you know everything that animals moving around that can move them and then all the sudden see who uses every day sue if you know. you.
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go through. a long narrow. go bad guys alley is on the edge so ask them to bring you a. boat. if it's hidden under all of the small little going to bother them you see you saw it ninety nine we find. and political. move. i think of it. and then you've also got an issue with the trigger over time. that trigger such degrade with the environment can expect any more than you can handle safely. you know everything is ready that's what they have to do is they actually have to blow it up exactly where they said. and you really do have to blow these up one at a time where they're sitting because that's how dangerous that it's.
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a little of the no that's one thirty we will clear a cluster bomb so at least keep the doors open and the kids inside the house. and to you as well in fact right now every day at one o'clock in the afternoon in south lebanon everyone knows that's when they blow up the clusters. the people of the area be ready for a cluster bomb demolition occur at one thirty. am and. yes ok. thank you. thank you.
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surprised that i just work as a group clearing. right. by this point. that might be so but i love the job. and not just on the salary one i love to work outside. and i'm not afraid because i don't know the rules. took me three most trying to cluster bomb on hold i'm just doing something wrong and i was having when i call my worst on this i wasn't afraid at all. i loved this job it's like. there's almost a. honest i'm sure lol i naive palestinian living in lebanon. that i studied here in lebanon
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on been working as a nurse for a few years. after the war there was another war the war of the cluster. there are still suffering from it is out of men one of them up and use came to lebanon to help get rid of the cluster bombs i had been when i started working for one of these n.g.o.s it's called dan church or dca much a b c a starlet i worked with them for seven or eight months as a medical team coordinator. when i saw fit a worry but methadone after i left the cia a friend of mine who works at the armor group which is one of the biggest clearance organizations but shake it was i would get up and then asked me to help them they needed first aid court major soccer the what do you belive in in the one i'll behave and find out. my.
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pleasure home during the war i was here in south lebanon working as a medic in an ambulance it was a difficult period. and thought it was scary. and i was always nervous the planes were above me and my son would hear nothing but the sound of the bombs i didn't see this only heighten my fear. renewed the latest in science technology from the realms. we've got the future covered.
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