Millions of landmines dotted across Afghanistan are causing concern among Pentagon officials plotting movement of Special Forces. Landmine Action, a British-based campaign, estimates there are up to 1 million mines in the country. It dismissed a Pentagon figure of 10 million mines, quoted in The Washington Post, as a wild overestimate. Anti-landmines activists in the region say they pose a greater threat to fleeing civilians than they do to U.S. forces, who would know where the mines are and would have equipment to deal with them. Most of the mines were placed there during the war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.-backed mujahideen in the 1980s.