Land mines for training could have been scrubbed clean and rendered inert but residual explosives will still set off detection devices, he added. The Ottawa Convention that banned their use has been. “Inert land mines are common training devices, especially in the Sinai. Since 1997, the type of land mines designed to kill people known as anti-personnel land mines have been outlawed by most countries. “If I travel to Israel and packed dirty clothes from the gun range, it would probably trip the alarm,” he said.
Monitoring devices are so sensitive they can detect even minute particles of an explosive in inert mines. “When police departments order new pistols, they are shipped by courier,” he said, though live ammunition is treated differently. Dirty Devil mines, San Rafael Swell Mining District, Emery County, Utah, USA Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 38° 41 39 North, 110° 59 1 West Latitude & Longitude (decimal): 38.69418,-110. John Thompson, executive director of the Mackenzie Institute, a Toronto think-tank, said “you’d be surprised what’s being shipped” on commercial flights. The former Mary Kathleen mine, also part of Rio Tinto’s corporate history, operated from 1958-82. News reports from Israel suggest the cargo was destined for the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula, but UN officials failed to inform El Al about the shipment. “We seized it and turned it over to the military, because it was inert military training device,” he said.ĭina Kutner, El Al’s Canadian general manager, declined to comment on the incident, saying only, “Our security department does what it has to do and it’s very effective.” Peel Police evacuated a cargo building where the cargo skid was located and called in the Canadian Forces for assistance before it was determined the materials posed no danger, said Const. 26 after El Al agents detected trace amounts of explosives in the shipment. Peel Regional Police were called to the airport Sept. TORONTO - Police are investigating an incident at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in which El Al security personnel flagged a container of inert land mines that was to be shipped to UN forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
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