A soldier uses a robot to detect mines at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 22, 2002. Nearly a quarter-century of fighting has left Bagram littered with mines and unexploded ordnance, from the tiny, flesh-shredding toe-popper land mines to rusting 500-pound Soviet bombs sticking out of the fields just beyond the runway.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
