It's dangerous
work for the archeologists and the miners alike. Eleanor Nichol, campaign
leader at Global Witness, told the New York Times, "If you were to pick a country that involves high
risk in developing a new mining sector, Afghanistan is it. But the genie is out
of the bottle."
Huffman says that Chinese workers have also been killed by land mines, and that the Taliban has fired on the MCC compound with rockets. Above, Afghan police guard the compound using 1970s-era Soviet weapons.
Brent E. Huffman
