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Lottery plan for Bosnian weapons By Nicholas Walton BBC News, Sarajevo A new month-long initiative to encourage Bosnians to hand in illegal weapons comes in to force on Sunday. Those handing over their small arms will be entered into a lottery, with prizes including motor scooters and kitchen appliances. Bosnia-Hercegovina is still awash with weapons left over from the Bosnian War of the early 1990s. Crime and gangland violence is often fuelled by shootings or hand-grenade attacks. Phone bill The UN Development Programme says hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons are still in the country. Despite this illegality, it is still possible to find machine guns such as AK47s openly advertised for sale in newspapers. News bulletins also throw up more unusual uses for arsenals left over from wartime. In October, a mosque near the city of Mostar was attacked by a man using an old rocket-propelled-grenade launcher. And there was also a recent story involving a teenager who threatened her father with a hand grenade in an argument over paying for a mobile phone bill. The father expressed surprise that his daughter had managed to get hold of a grenade from her friends, rather than simply use one of his own collection. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
