Meanwhile, two American soldiers were killed in road mine attacks.
There are mines in backyards, mines in the forest, mines on the side of the road, mines out at sea.
They had braved Taliban threats and road mines to come here to select a district council, part of a plan to strengthen local government in the most unstable parts of Afghanistan.
The two American soldiers who died today were killed in road mine attacks, one from the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment near Ramadi and the other from the 101st Airborne outside Mosul.
The underground trial featured a comprehensive set of sensor hardware (Fig. 5), mounted on a test platform designed to set the instruments at a similar height to that of the gate road mine machinery.
Significant European uses of the park's land have been Newman's Nursery, a main road, mines, quarries and a water filtration plant.
Just north of Blackhorse the lead vehicle of the convoy hit a road mine, damaging a dozer tank but resulting in no casualties.
Whether in Vietnam 50 years ago or Afghanistan this week, the soldiers who have been conditioned in this way are placed in thankless situations where rationality is already overridden by constant fear -- road mines, snipers, folks with automatic weapons beneath their civilian robes, dark shadows in the midnight rainforest.
Wu spent 19 years as a political prisoner in China building roads, mining coal, and farming.
When that crust is disturbed by farming, roads, mining, or "hooves, bikes, wheels, boots," Dr. Belnap said, "you have an area that's ready to blow".
