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(May 6)\u003cbr/\u003e [Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]  \u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:nat]\u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:19. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Robert B. P. Thompson, US Army 10th Mountain Division:]\u003cbr/\u003e \"They are extremely curious as to what we were doing. They will hide the women, their children thinking that we are coming here to hurt them like the Russians. \u003cbr/\u003e[Notes:Lieutenant Robert B. P. Thompson, US Army 10th Mountain Division:]\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now when we roll though there, just like you saw, everybody runs out and waves at us, even the little girls and some of the .... Boys and men always come out but once the girls start coming out, once they start letting the girls come out you know that you really won them over.\"\u003cbr/\u003e  1. US soldiers going into a house to search for weapons\u003cbr/\u003e  2. Mid of a US soldier walking up stairs and entering a building\u003cbr/\u003e  3. Mid of a US soldier searching inside someone's house\u003cbr/\u003e  4. Mid of a US soldier going through someone's house as a women sits inside covering her face\u003cbr/\u003e  5. Close-up of woman covering her face\u003cbr/\u003e  6. Mid of a US soldier searching house while two women cover their faces \u003cbr/\u003e  7. Close up of a child looking through the window as the soldier searches through his home\u003cbr/\u003e  8. Pan of US soldier looking at pictures on the wall of the house\u003cbr/\u003e  9. Wide of US soldier searching inside room\u003cbr/\u003e  10. Soldier standing outside house being searched\u003cbr/\u003e  11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Mohammed Ali, Farmer: \u003cbr/\u003e  \"If they send 30-thousand or 100-thousand soldiers it won't bring any peace. The more soldiers that will come, the angrier people will become.\"\u003cbr/\u003e  12. Wide of US military humvee vehicle crossing a river towards a village\u003cbr/\u003e  13. Mid of local people watching the vehicle\u003cbr/\u003e  14. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Mohammed Bashir, farmer:\u003cbr/\u003e  \"We all hate them. If they come here there will be more fighting. In the last seven years they said that they will do this and that, but in the end they do not do anything. Everyday in Afghanistan civilians are getting killed. Nobody here thinks that they are good people\".\u003cbr/\u003e  15. Wide of US war plane flying above Nerk Valley\u003cbr/\u003e  16. Tilt up US soldier taking up a position on the ground as a local family walk by\u003cbr/\u003e  17. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Abdul Khadir, farmer:\u003cbr/\u003e  \"They have been in Afghanistan for seven years and they have not accomplished anything. They say they will help build a dam for the water, that they will help with electricity, and that they will repair our mosque. But they will do nothing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e  18. Various of US soldiers with Afghan people\u003cbr/\u003e  19. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Robert B. P. Thompson, US Army 10th Mountain Division:\u003cbr/\u003e  \"They are extremely curious as to what we were doing. They will hide the women, their children thinking that we are coming here to hurt them like the Russians. But now when we roll though there, just like you saw, everybody runs out and waves at us, even the little girls and some of the .... Boys and men always come out but once the girls start coming out, once they start letting the girls come out you know that you really won them over.\"\u003cbr/\u003e  20. Close up of boy holding a baby\u003cbr/\u003e  21. Mid of US soldier patrolling in Afghan village\u003cbr/\u003e  Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai is expected to raise the issue of civilian casualties when he holds his first face-to-face meeting with his US counterpart Barack Obama on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003e  Civilian deaths have caused increasing friction between the Afghan and US governments, and Karzai has long pleaded with American officials to reduce the number of civilian casualties in their operations. \u003cbr/\u003e  On Wednesday, Karzai ordered a probe into allegations by local officials that more than 30 civilians died in US-led bombing in western Afghanistan. \u003cbr/\u003e  The international Red Cross said on Wednesday that its officials saw women and children among dozens of dead bodies in two villages in western Afghanistan targeted in US bombing runs.\u003cbr/\u003e  The Afghan president said he would raise the issue with President Barack Obama when the two hold talks in Washington.\u003cbr/\u003e  US and NATO officials accuse the Taliban militants of fighting from within civilian homes.\u003cbr/\u003e  An AP television crew embedded with US troops on exercise in the Nerk Valley in Wardak province filmed soldiers searching people's houses looking for weapons.\u003cbr/\u003e  Some locals said US forces were not welcome in the area.\u003cbr/\u003e  \"We all hate them. If they come here there will be more fighting,\" local farmer Mohammed Bashir told AP Television. about the troops.\u003cbr/\u003e  \"In the last seven years they said that they will do this and that, but in the end they do not do anything. Everyday in Afghanistan civilians are getting killed. Nobody here thinks that they are good people,\" he added. \u003cbr/\u003e  Lieutenant Robert Thompson from the US Army's 10th Mountain Division in Wardak told AP Television he thought local people were curious about them and that relations had recently improved.\u003cbr/\u003e  But civilian deaths have caused increasing friction between the Afghan and US governments, and Karzai has long pleaded with American officials to reduce the number of civilian casualties in their operations.\u003cbr/\u003e  The US is increasingly focusing on Afghanistan as it shifts its resources away from Iraq. \u003cbr/\u003e  Obama is sending 21-thousand additional forces to bolster the record 38-thousand US troops already in Afghanistan in hopes of stemming an increasingly powerful Taliban insurgency.\u003cbr/\u003e  But farmer Mohammed Ali said increasing the number of US troops \"won't bring any peace\".\u003cbr/\u003e  \"The more soldiers that will come, the angrier people will become,\" he 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