BAGHDAD, March 16 (Xinhuanet) -- A total of 314 unexploded cluster
bombs, rockets, anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, left over in
the 1991 Gulf War, have been found over Iraq from December 1, 2001
to February 28, 2002, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported
Saturday. 
   Mohammad al-Duri, Iraq's permanent representative to the United
Nations, handed over a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
and presented him with the information, the INA said.
   The bombs, rocket and mines, which were found in the southern
and northern provinces such as Basra, Najaf, Thi-Qar, Wasit,
Neineva and Anbar, have killed two people in the Um-al-Sayadin area
in Basra Province, the letter said.
   Iraq has often reported civilians injured or killed by bombs,
missiles or mines left over in the 1991 Gulf War or the subsequent
Western bombings of the two no-fly zones.
   It is believed that a large number of unexploded bombs, shells
and missiles are left in the country, especially in northern and
southern parts, as a result of the Gulf War, during which the
United States-led Western allies defeated Iraq and evicted Iraqi
troops out of Kuwait, and the constant bombardments of the two no-
fly zones by U.S.-British planes.
   U.S. and British warplanes have been patrolling and bombing
targets inside the two no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq
since the Gulf War to keep Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at bay. 
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