Karbala areas, planted with land-mines, used as Allied Forces camps

  KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: The Chairwoman for the Environment Committee in southwestern Iraq ’s Karbala Province , has said on Tuesday that there were three areas in the province, planted with unexploded materials and land-mines, that have been transformed into camps by the Alliance forces, confirming that they were being dismantled.   “ Karbala had witnessed several armed operations, along with changing lots of its areas into places for arms and explosives, whilst some of those areas were used as camps for the Alliance forces after the downfall of the former regime in 2003,” Sulaila Shanno told IraqiNews.com news agency.   She said that there were three areas in Karbala , representing threat for the lives of its citizens, because they had been planted with land-mines and unexploded materials, mostly agricultural and housing areas.   “The Environment Committee in Karabala is striving to dismantle the said dangerous materials, through cooperation with the Civil Defense, Military Engineering, the anti-mines office and the Karbala Environment directorate, that are removing and dismantling those serious materials,” she said, adding that “those areas had been isolated and surrounded by a special steel fence to protect innocent people entering them, or get killed or disabled.”   Karbala , the center of the province carrying the same name, is 108 km to the south of Baghdad .   SKH (IT)     563