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Former War Zones Too Dangerous to Enter

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Former War Zones Too Dangerous to Enter

When the smoke clears and the last shells have fallen, some war zones will retain painful reminders of former unpleasantries. Uncleared and unmapped, it's safe to say minefields present an extremely unpredictable and deadly danger to civilians, often long after the conflict in which they were used in has come to a close. Here are some of the deadliest places to go walking unescorted...

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The Bridge of Mostar: The Jewel that Divides Two Cultures

Monday, September 14, 2009

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The Bridge of Mostar: The Jewel that Divides Two Cultures

As the USSR crumbled, a similar but far bloodier process was taking place in a troubled part of Eastern Europe. For hundreds of years a melting pot of nationalities, and today the last bastion of Islam in Europe, nowhere was the fighting fiercer or more terrible than in the beautiful Herzegovinan region of Mostar...

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