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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates visits, meets troops, generals
1. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates emerging from military plane at Kandahar Airfield, being greeted by military
2. Gates walking with military personnel, zoom in on sign reading (English): "Welcome to Kandahar Airfield"
3. Various of...
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Afghans divided over announced departure of US troops
1. Various of US military vehicles driving in the city centre
2. Mid of people walking along street
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Assadullah Khan,18 year old shopkeeper:
"The foreigners leave our country because our security can handle the...
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Afghans angry over removal of accused US soldier
1. People crossing road at police check post
2. Armed policeman at check post
3. Wide of check post
4. Set-up shot of Kandahar lawmaker, Abdul Khaliq Balakarzai
5. Cutaway of hands
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Abdul Khaliq Balakarzai,...
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Funeral for assassinated brother of president
1. Wide of Afghan officials attending a ceremony after the burial in the village of Karz in Kandahar province
2. Mid of Afghan President Hamid Karzai
3. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Hamid Karzai, Afghan President:
++Audio as incoming++
"My message...
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Taliban crossing border + wounded in hospital
1. Various of Pakistani border with Afghanistan
2. Various of men looking up at sky
3. Long shot of American jet fighter flying low
4. Taliban with rocket launchers and machine guns on other side of border fence in vehicles patrolling...
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First UN aid plane lands in former Taliban stonghold
1. Wide shot UN plane on tarmac and ISAF troops in foreground
2. ISAF troops and Afghan women
3. Open hold of plane
4. Afghan men queuing up to unload aid
5. Men unloading aid from back of plane
6. Various of men putting down aid and...
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WRAP 18 Koreans abducted from bus, bus station, security ADDS SKorea reax
Kabul, Afghanistan - 20 July, 2007
1. Wide pan from buses to group of men at Kabul-Kandahar bus depot
2. Mid shot people at bus station ticket desk
3. Parked buses
4. Man wiping down bus
5. Men sitting at ticket office
6. SOUNDBITE:...
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Latest from crossing, refugees talk about bombing
1. Wideshot pan of border area inside Afghanistan (shot from border post in Pakistan)
2. Close up refugees loading baggage onto roof of a van
3. Mid shot of refugee walking across border with women wearing burqas (full veil) carrying...
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UN spokesman on death tolls plus security for Powell visit.
1. Wide of presser
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephanie Bunke, UN Spokeswoman:
"On Saturday 12th October, during airstrikes a bomb landed in the city centre of Mazar. It reportedly killed one woman and four men on the spot. The site is near...
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AFGHANISTAN: 73 FORMER HIJACK HOSTAGES RETURN HOME
Pashtu/Farsi/Natsound
Eight days after their plane was hijacked and taken to Britain, 73 passengers flew home to Afghanistan on Monday to a heroes' welcome.
Meanwhile, Britain was examining political asylum requests from 69 other...
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Protests + UNHCR on refugee crisis
Quetta, 19 October 2001
1. Policeman watching over mosque at Friday prayer time
2. Close shot gun barrel with people praying below
3. Mid shot people praying
4. Security watching pro-Taliban march
5. Various shots crowd marching with...
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Funerals for suicide bombing victims, death toll now over 100
1. Jeep driving in with coffin
2. People gathered for the funeral
3. Back of jeep with coffin
4. Close-up of damaged jeep
5. People gathered around coffin
6. Wide of people gathered at the funeral
7. People at funeral inside
8. People...
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Two marines killed in helicopter crash, news conference
1. Various of CH-53 Echo Super Stallion helicopters, same as the one that crashed, at airport
2. Exterior of Kandahar airport with military guard
3. SOUNDBITE (English) 1st Lt. James Jarvis, Marine spokesperson
"A marine CH-53 Echo...
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Suicide blast near NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan
1. Wide of blast site
2. Wide of security at blast site
3. Fire engine passing by
4. Security at blast site
5. Various of blast site
6. Various of Canadian convoy passing by
7. Fire brigade passing by
8. Mid Canadian convoy
9. SOUNDBITE...
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Taliban attack government buildings in key city
1. Smoke rising over Kandahar city skyline AUDIO: gunfire
2. View of city skyline AUDIO: gunfire
3. Helicopter flying over
4. View of Kandahar city skyline, mosque AUDIO: gunfire
5. View of city skyline AUDIO: gunfire
6. Wide of...
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Mixed views about NATO presence, 10 years after start of war
Khost province - 5 October 2011
1. Family walking to damaged building which was used as a guesthouse by Taliban and was bombed after 9/11 by coalition forces
2. Various of damaged building
3. Wide of Saiful Ahmad, a Khost resident,...
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Karzai says opium poppy cultivation has been cut by 30-40%
Kabul - 26 April 2005
1. Wide shot Afghan President Hamid Karzai sitting down at news conference in Presidential Palace
2. Journalists
3. Journalist asking Karzai question
4. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Hamid Karzai, Afghan President:
"There is a...
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Preparations for NATO ministers meeting, analyst
1. Various of Vilnius
2. Wide of street
3. Mid of flags on the street
4. Set up shot of Margarita Seselgyte, deputy director of Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University
5. Close up of hands...
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Afghanistan - Border reinforcements
Rare video footage taken on the border of Afghanistan with Iran shows that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban are still building up forces on the border, after renewed threats from Tehran that it will attack.
Member of Taliban praying...
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Suicide car bomb hits UN convoy, killing the attacker
1. Wide shot of incident
2. Near shot of scene
3. Close shot of UN burning vehicle
4. Various of fire fighters hosing vehicle with water
5. Pieces of UN vehicle
6. Destroyed UN vehicle.
7. Medium shot of Afghanistan police taking care...
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Gun battle kills three, including two children; Afghan governor on Taliban
Bati Kot district, Nangarhar province
1. Wide of group of local people surrounding dead bodies
2. Various of locals surrounding covered dead bodies
3. Close of man holding covered dead child
4. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Mohajab Khan,...
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Homegrown burqa industry faces decline in demand
11 April 2013
1. Various of Afghan women wearing burqas walking out of burqa stall
2. Wide of shop selling burqas
3. Various of burqas for sale
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Mohammad Ashraf, Burqa seller:
"Compared to the past, Chinese burqas...
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WRAP Aftermath of blast, which killed 38; injured on Pakistan side of border
Near Chaman, Pakistan - 18 February 2008
1. Various extreme wide shots of blast scene in Spin Boldak, filmed from the Pakistani side of the border, thick plume of smoke rising in distance
2. Wide of scene, line of Afghanistan flags in...
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Aftermath mosque attack, reax, file of police chief killed
Kandahar
1. Various outside mosque with people at scene helping
2. Various of blankets and debris
3. Man picking through debris
4. Exterior of mosque
5. Emergency vehicle driving to scene
6. Ambulances at scene
Kabul
7. Exterior...