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Wide of carpet seller Haji Qandi Shah and his son working in their shop 2. Mid Haji Qandi Shah3. Close of  Haji Qandi Shah and his son folding rugs4. Close of Afghan war rug 5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eKabul, 24th March 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of carpet seller Haji Qandi Shah and his son working in their shop \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid Haji Qandi Shah\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of  Haji Qandi Shah and his son folding rugs\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of Afghan war rug \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Haji Qandi Shah, Carpet Seller: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If the fighting continues,  designs of weapons and rifles on the rugs will continue as well. If fighting stops maybe this custom will change, people will design something else instead of these weapons and guns, they might start designing flowers and other items.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide pan shot from traffic in Kabul street to destroyed building \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of destroyed building \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eKabul, 9th March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close of thread used for making carpets with a photo of U.S president Barack Obama in the background\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of carpet maker Amin Naadim making Obama's portrait on a rug \u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of hands weaving rug \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of Naadim working on Obama's portrait on rug \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close of Obama's photo \u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Amin Naadim, Carpet Maker: \u003cbr/\u003e\"They (war rugs) carry a message of war and their production should be banned forever. There should be more focus on artistic, interesting and peaceful ideas while making rugs.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of Naadim cutting extra threads from Obama's portrait rug \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Amin Naadim, Carpet Maker: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The reason I enjoyed working on Obama's portrait a lot is his new approach, his new ideas and he has been saying that we have new strategies, so that is what I like about him and I really enjoyed my work while making it.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eKabul, 12th March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of Obama's portrait on rug \u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Naadim holding Obama's portrait rug \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of NATO soldiers looking for carpets in their military base in Kabul \u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of NATO soldier looking for a war rug \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of war rug showing AK47 rifle, tanks, RPG rocket launcher and hand grenade \u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid of soldiers at carpet shop \u003cbr/\u003e22. Close of hands counting Dollars \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close of soldier giving money to shopkeeper \u003cbr/\u003e24. Pan shot from war rug to U.S soldiers \u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of shopkeeper explaining the rug to soldiers \u003cbr/\u003e26. Various of war rug showing Afghan map with U.S B52 and military helicopters \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (English) U.S Lieutenant Colonel, Kevin Holt: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it is the fact that it is unique to Afghanistan and it shows its history, you know it shows its military history, I mean the rest of their military history. I mean it is a group of people that for two thousand years have been unconquerable. There's a lot of history here.\" \u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdullah Ansari, Carpet Seller:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Carpet has, it is a good business, and even the war rugs have a good market and we can get a good business for the war rugs. Even we can, we are not talking about ourselves, the people who make these the women, they can have a good business from the war rugs.\" \u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid shot rug with rifle and tank design\u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide rug showing twin towers with war imagery below\u003cbr/\u003e31. Close twin towers \u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of shop selling carpets and Afghan war rugs \u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid of man standing next to war rug \u003cbr/\u003eAfghanistan's three decades of fighting and insecurity have spawned a thriving \"war rug\" business for an international clientele of military buffs and soldiers. \u003cbr/\u003eThe carpet designs have moved from Soviet-era imagery to U.S. and NATO insignia, and are a reminder that even war is a commodity in today's Afghanistan.\u003cbr/\u003eAmid piles of flowery and geometric carpets in an Afghan shop sits a rug of war planes flying over a map of Afghanistan. \u003cbr/\u003eAnother shows planes hitting the World Trade Center overlaid by Afghan and American flags.  \u003cbr/\u003eAfghanistan's history has long been recorded by its largely uneducated people in stories and in carpets. \u003cbr/\u003eWhen Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, traditional woven scenes of hunters or village life gave way to Kalashnikov rifles, fighter planes and helicopters.  \u003cbr/\u003eOne such carpet shows the capital of Kabul under attack by planes and  tanks. In another, a pattern of squat shapes reveals itself to be lines of Soviet tanks. \u003cbr/\u003eA third carpet depicts a peaceful city scene, except for helicopters flying overhead.  \u003cbr/\u003eLater, Afghans who fled to refugee camps in Pakistan started mass-producing images of Soviet weaponry for sale in the West, sellers say. Many of these are still sold around Kabul, though the designs have been updated. \u003cbr/\u003eAs one newer carpet proclaims in block letters: \"NATO and ISAF forces fight against terrorists.\" ISAF refers to NATO's International Security Assistance Force.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe slogans are an attempt by the struggling rug industry in Afghanistan to draw more business from foreigners. \u003cbr/\u003eEven though rug-making is a major trade, most weavers don't have the machinery or the means to finish the rugs in the country and have to send them to neighbouring Pakistan.\u003cbr/\u003eThe rectangular poster-looking rugs that cost about $30 USD and show F-16 fighter planes or Chinook helicopters, may be some of the few rugs that are woven and finished in Afghanistan. \u003cbr/\u003eTheir short labels laud the foreign effort: \"FDNY\" for Fire Department of New York or \"Tora Bora\" or \"September 11, 2001\" or \"War Against Terror\" or just \"USA.\"  \u003cbr/\u003eSoldiers are major buyers of the rugs. The most popular use of the small carpets? A doormat or bathroom rug.  \u003cbr/\u003eAt Camp Eggers, the U.S. base in Kabul, Lt. Col. Kevin Holt says he has spent about $3,000 USD on 15 war rugs during his Afghanistan deployment. \u003cbr/\u003eThe big money comes from the old Soviet-era carpets he bought, but he's bought plenty of newer productions as well, hoping that they'll gain value.  \u003cbr/\u003eHolt acknowledges that he's one of the more avid collectors on the base. \u003cbr/\u003eHe had read about war rugs before coming to Afghanistan and they were the first thing he asked about when he walked into Abdullah Ansari's shop on the base. \"I think it is the fact that it is unique to Afghanistan and it shows its history, you know it shows its military history, I mean the rest of their military history. I mean it is a group of people that for two thousand years have been unconquerable, there is a lot of history here,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eOne weaver, Amin Naadim, makes rugs to show the aftermath of the war. Naadim's current project is a critique of Afghanistan's government, a twisted four-armed figure pulling the skin away from its head and stomach to reveal the skeleton beneath. Not that he'll turn down a government job for $800, Naadim wove a President George W. Bush carpet ordered by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.  \u003cbr/\u003eHe is now looking for a buyer for his Barack Obama carpet.  \"The reason I enjoyed a lot while working on Obama's portrait is his new approach, his new ideas and he has been saying that we have new strategies, so that is what I like about him and I really enjoyed my work while making it,\" he says.  \u003cbr/\u003eSome carpet sellers say the war rugs make a bigger statement about their country. \u003cbr/\u003eEven the World Trade Center carpet is hopeful because it marks the moment when the world started paying attention to Afghanistan, says Nabi Azizi, who owns a carpet shop on Kabul's Chicken Street, a main shopping area for foreigners.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut Naadim disagrees. \"They (war rugs) have the message of war and their production should be banned for ever. 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