On Deadly Ground

NPR

Published January 27, 2002 at 7:00 PM HST

NPR's Steve Inskeep in Kandahar reports a U.N. team has begun an effort to deal with the thousands of landmines and unexploded bombs that litter the countryside around the former Taliban stronghold.

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