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Romanian NATO troops securing vital Afghan highway
1. Close of Romanian flag and army unit flag
2. Tilt down of Romanian soldier fixing flags to armoured vehicle
3. Various of Romanian soldiers on armoured vehicles ready to go on night patrol
4. Close up of soldier inside vehicle
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Briefing on latest developments in Afghanistan
1. Wide shot of Pentagon briefing.
2. Wide onscreen gun camera view of attack on facility believed to house Taliban leadership
3. Onscreen gun camera view of attack
4. Briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem,...
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Karzai appeals for international help to fight narco-trade
1. Exterior, Afghan Foreign Ministry
2. Conference
3. Sign: International counter Narcotics Conference
4. Opening of conference
5. President Hamid Karzai and delegates praying
6. Audience
7. Afghan President Hamid Karzai
8. SOUNDBITE:...
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WRAP Explosion as voting continues
Kabul
1. Mid of women in burqas walking outside polling station for nomads living in Kabul
2. Various of nomad (Kuchi) man registering to vote
3. Mid of man leaving after voting
4. Close-up of hand putting ballot paper into ballot box
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Canadian military briefing on militant attack on coalition base
1. Wide shot of news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Col. Chris Vernon, chief of staff for coalition forces:
"Yesterday afternoon the ANA (Afghan National Army) re-supply convoy was attacked by Taliban returning to that forward...
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Pentagon shows video of US conducting ground operations
1. General Richard B. Meyers steps up to podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Air Force General Richard B. Meyers, chairman of the US military Joint Chiefs of Staff
"Special Operations forces including U-S army rangers deployed to Afghanistan....
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Canadian General comments on latest fighting, Canadian troops on patrol
Panjwayi, (30 kilometres (18 miles) west of Kandahar) - 25 November, 2006
1. Canadian soldier walks down dirt road ahead of a Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) troop carrier
2. Low shot of wheels of LAV
3. Soldier on turret of LAV
4....
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Opium production at record high despite international efforts
Afghanistan's opium production surged this year to record levels, despite international efforts over the past decade to wean the country off the narcotics trade, according to a report released on Wednesday by the United Nations drug...
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British PM David Cameron comments on killings of Afghan civilians
1. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, British Prime Minister:
"Well first of all this is obviously and absolutely dreadful event that has taken place, and one's heart just goes out to those families in Kandahar who have suffered these...
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GRAPHIC+ Suicide truck bomb attack near UN office kills five
1. Wide of UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) compound with damaged walls
2. Low angle of Afghan security forces in the compound
3. Dead body of attacker inside building
4. Afghan security forces standing next to dead...
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Daily UN and Foreign Ministry briefings in Islamabad
1. Wide of Pakistani Foreign Ministry news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major General Rashid Qureshi, Pakistan military spokesman
"Beefing up of scouts and our border security forces which are made up of second line forces under...
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US spokesman confirms US-led coalition helicopter crash
Kandahar - October 2005
1. Various of US Helicopters flying over Kandahar
2. Close-up of pilot
3. Mid of helicopter flying
Bagram - 18 February 2007
4. Mid of Lieutenant Colonel David Accetta, US military spokesman in Bagram
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Five police and two Taliban rebels killed in gunbattle
1. Wide of wounded policeman in hospital
2. Close-up of wounded policeman
3. Doctors treating second wounded policeman
4. SOUNDBITE: (Pasthu) Wounded policeman (no name given):
"Last night Taliban attacked our check point, we fought...
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Five children killed in suicide car bombing
1. Wide of blast site ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
2. Various of car wreckage on road, security forces in background
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, Head of security for provincial police force:
"The explosive was placed in the car...
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Canadian troops deployed to Kandahar
1. Various of Canada C-130 Hercules aircraft landing on Kandahar
2. Troops coming out of plane
3. Soldiers in the hangar listening to their commander
4. Medium shot of the soldiers
5. Close up of the soldiers
6. Close up of military...
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Kandahar's only female police officer
1. Captain Malalai Kakar walking with tray of food
2. Various shots of Kakar having meal with her family
3. Various shots of Kakar putting on police vest
4. Children
5. Kakar walks past camera
6. Kakar gets in police car
7. Driving...
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Top Pentagon officer says Kandahar key to curbing rise of Taliban
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cutaway of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff:
"We must also look ahead to Kandahar. We know that as important as central Helmand has been,...
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Rebel leader urges people to drive foreign forces out of Afghanistan
1. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtun) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Chief of Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan:
"The Northern Alliance faction was told to kill the Taliban who were defeated in Kunduz and this was Rumsfeld who ordered the killing"
2. Cutaway from the...
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US spokesman confirms US-led coalition helicopter crash
Kandahar - October 2005
1. Various of US Helicopters flying over Kandahar
2. Close-up of pilot
3. Mid of helicopter flying
Bagram - 18 February 2007
4. Mid of Lieutenant Colonel David Accetta, US military spokesman in Bagram
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Two girls are hospitalized with serious burns after two men on a motorbike threw acid on a group of girls walking to school in southern Afghanistan. Warning: Some viewers may find this graphic video disturbing.
HEADLINE:Acid attacks scare Afghan schoolgirls
CAPTION: Two girls are hospitalized with serious burns after two men on a motorbike threw acid on a group of girls walking to school in southern Afghanistan. Warning: Some viewers may find...
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Handover ceremony as NATO takes control in southern Afghanistan
1. Wide of ceremony marking handover of command in Southern Afghanistan from the US-led coalition to NATO
2. Tilt down from Coalition and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) flags beside each other to troops
3. Wide shot of...
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Afghan leader Hamid Karzai leaves for US
1. Various of Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai greeting officers
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader:
"(Question: "What are you going to talk about with President Bush?) "Well I'll thank him for all the...
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US troops continue cave-clearing operations
1. Chinook helicopter on ground after dropping US soldiers at area of operation (north of Spinboldak)
2. Chinook helicopters leaving area and US soldiers on the ground
3. Close shot US soldiers taking position on ground
4. Long shot US...