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U.S. Criticized Plans to Use Landmines in Iraq

HeadlineMar 01, 2005

Human Rights Watch is criticizing a U.S. plan to deploy a new system of remote-controlled anti-personnel mines in Iraq called the Matrix. The group says the Pentagon has failed to answer crucial questions about the potential harm the mines could pose to innocent civilians.

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