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Profile: Life in Bamian, Afghanistan, after routing of the Taliban

Host: JOHN YDSTIE Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

JOHN YDSTIE, host:

Nearly a year ago, the Taliban destroyed two giant statues of Buddha at Bamian in Afghanistan. They had been carved into a mountainside and dated back to the seventh century. Bamian is hard to reach; it' s set in a broad valley flanked by high stone cliffs. Our colleague Scott Simon went there to see how the town, treated so brutally by the Taliban, is faring since the defeat.

SCOTT SIMON reporting:

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