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U.S. Troops Suicide
Suicides by active duty U.S. troops last year exceeded the number of servicemen and women killed in combat in Afghanistan. Ray Suarez talks to psychiatrist and retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis, who says more than half of the...
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Army detonates decommissioned ammonium nitrate
1. Wide of truck on plain with Afghan troops standing around it
2. Wide of troops lifting bags of ammonium nitrate, the substance is commonly used in roadside bombs
3. Wide of troops laying bags in trench in order to blow them up
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Security around Paris was increased early on Thursday following Osama bin Laden's threats to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a law that will ban face-covering Muslim veils.
HEADLINE: Paris beefs up security following bin laden threat
CAPTION: Security around Paris was increased early on Thursday following Osama bin Laden's threats to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for the U.S.-led...
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Press conference by US General Tommy Franks
1. Soldiers lined up waiting for Franks
2. Franks greets soldiers
3. Close up Franks chatting to soldier
4. Cutaway press photographers on roof
5. US soldiers
6. Cutaway press
7. Franks walks up to microphones
8. Cutaway US army...
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US hands over Herat to Italian ISAF forces, Karzai with Abizaid
Agency Pool
Herat
1. US and Italian soldiers carrying flags - US, Afghan, Italian - in ceremony to hand over Herat PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) from US troops to Italian ISAF troops at PRT headquarters
2. Wide shot ceremony
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Karzai on assassination attempt, adds Defence Minister
1. Interior shot, Russian delegation walking in to building
2. Corridor, as Russian delegation walks in, greeted by officials
3. Journalists crowding at Karzai's meeting with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov
4. Karzai and Ivanov...
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Doctor on his contact with captors of Korean, German hostages
1. Wide exterior of Wahaaj Clinic
2. Close-up of sign reading: (English) "Wahaaj Diagnostic Clinic"
3. Afghan Doctor Mohammad Hashim Wahaaj speaking during news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Hashim Wahaaj, Afghan Doctor:...
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US President Obama addresses troops at Bagram Air Field
1. Wide of President Barack Obama walking onto stage, crowd cheering, Obama shaking hands with servicemen and servicewomen standing by stage, UPSOUND: (English) Barack Obama, US President: "How''s it going Bagram?", crowd cheers, pull...
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FM spokesman reax as up to 20 killed in suspected US strike in Pakistan
1. Wide Exterior of Pakistan foreign office
2. Set up shoot of Pakistan foreign office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan foreign office spokesman:
"Well, the position of the government of...
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President Bush met Monday with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, and called Pakistan a strong ally in the fight against terrorists who is committed to securing its border with Afghanistan.
HEADLINE: Bush hails Pakistan as strong ally
CAPTION: President Bush met Monday with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, and called Pakistan a strong ally in the fight against terrorists who is committed to securing its border...
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri meets Putin in Moscow.
1. Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri exchanging gifts with Russian President Vladimir Putin
2. Various of round table discussion
3. Cutaway
4. Close up of Hariri
5. Wide of table
Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri arrived in...
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Afghan refugees return home from Iran in search of families
Dogharun, on the Afghan border on Northern Eastern Iran
1. UNOCHA (U.N. Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Assistance) officer with map of Afghanistan in foreground
2. UN sign
3. Various of lecture
4. Refugees watching
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Afghan Air Force receives three new Mi-17 helicopters
Afghanistan's Air Force added to its fleet early on Tuesday when it received three new Mi-17 helicopters from NATO.
Two of the new Mi-17 helicopters will be shipped to Kandahar, while one will remain in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The...
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US envoy meets Afghan president
1. Wide of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. national security advisor Stephen Hadley talking at presidential palace
2. Mid of Karzai
3. Mid of Hadley
4. Afghan officials attending the meeting
5. US officials at the meeting
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REPLAY Last day of rallies, elex commision, ballot distribution, Abdullah rally
17 August 2009
1. Wide of rally with cheering supporters of former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's main rival in upcoming presidential elections, supporters holding banners, chanting
2. Abdullah...
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Four girls killed in mayhem after accidental explosion at school
1. School students walking
2. Mid shot students and their relatives in front of the school
3. Students leaving the school
4. Mid shot police inside the school
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) General Mohammad Ayoob Salangi, Herat police chief...
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Car bomb targets Western convoy, three Afghans killed
Kandahar
1. Wide shot car tilted on ground with steam rising
2. Fire fighters standing around wrecked car
3. Fire fighters spraying water on car
4. Various soldiers and firefighters around burned out car
Kabul
5. Wide shot Defence...
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OBAMA COMMENTS ON PAKISTAN, YEMEN AND GREECE
In an unmistakable snub, President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked on Monday for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan.
The omission highlights the prolonged slump in U.S. relations with Pakistan that...
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Attacks hit Kandahar, killing 2 Afghan civilians
1. Wide of wounded victims inside Mirwais hospital in Kandahar
2. Close of wounded man on stretcher
2. Close of broken leg of wounded victim
3. Various of hospital workers ferrying wounded victims on hospital beds
4. Wide of victims'...
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WRAP 4:3 Leaders arrive at the OSCE Summit; family photo ADDS speeches
1. Wide of conference centre, various flags blowing in wind ++MUTE++
2. Close of flags ++MUTE++
3. Various of President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, greeting Japanese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Yutaka...
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British red post box installed to boost troop morale
Gereshk, 17 July 2007
1. Wide of soldiers walking towards postbox
2. Close-up of red British postbox
3. Close-up of royal insignia on postbox
4. Soldiers posting letters
5. Various of soldiers standing next to postbox, talking
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Seven American service members have been killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, according to NATO.
HEADLINE: 7 U.S. troops dead in 2 Afghan bomb attacks
CAPTION: Seven American service members have been killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, according to NATO. (Aug. 30)
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PAKISTAN: ISLAMABAD: HIJACKED AIRPLANE - U-N INVOLVED
English/Nat
The United Nations is getting involved in the effort to end the hijacking of an India Airlines plane.
The hijackers are demanding that India free a Pakistani religious leader and several Kashmir fighters.
They have been...
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AFGHANISTAN: QARABAH: FIGHTING CONTINUES ON EVER-CHANGING FRONT-LINE
Natural Sound
Fighting continued unabated Tuesday as Taliban forces fought on the ever-changing front-line, north of the capital Kabul.
Anti-Taliban forces have been shelling the Taliban's positions for several days, and spent Monday...