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UNESCO visits site of destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas
1. Various of wide shots of place where Bamiyan Buddhas stood, including statues' remains
2. Various of UNESCO team studying Buddhas remains
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Claudio Margottini, EU global change and eco systems advisory...
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ISAF statement on latest shooting of NATO soldiers by Afghan security
Attackers hit international forces, the Afghan army and Afghan civilians in two days of violence that by Monday morning had left 29 people dead - two of them US soldiers killed by an Afghan colleague.
In the deadliest attack, insurgents...
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20 killed in mosque blast, relatives, official comment, wounded
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
Kandahar
7. Various of...
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Ancient Hebrew manuscripts discovered in caves in Taliban stronghold unveiled
1. Close on manuscripts written in Hebrew characters
2. Mid of Haggai Ben-Shammai, academic director of Israel's National Library, showing manuscripts in Hebrew characters
3. Various of journalist looking at manuscripts in Hebrew...
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Britain's prime minister arrives
1. British Prime Minister Tony Blair walking away from plane past guard of honour
2. Various of Blair being introduced to dignitaries
3. Blair walking on red carpet
4. Various of soldiers in guard of honour
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony...
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AFGHANISTAN: KABUL: TALIBAN REBELS SEIZE CONTROL OF CAPITAL UPDATE
English/Nat
A former Afghan president has been executed after Taliban fighter took the capital, Kabul.
Islamic rebels seized former president Najibullah from a United Nations compound Friday. His bloated and beaten body was found...
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WRAP Afghanistan holds landmark legislative elections, adds Karzai
1. Mid shot of Bismillah Bismil, chief of the Joint Electoral Management Body casting his vote
2. Various electoral officials preparing ballots
3. Various woman in burka casting her vote
4. More of women voting
5. Shukria Barkzai ...
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Rocket attack kills 26 at Afghan wedding party; wounded taken to hospital
A rocket fired amid fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan soldiers killed at least 26 people at a nearby wedding party Thursday night, authorities said, a grim end to a year that saw the end of the 13-year US-led combat mission...
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Afghan police killed five militants in a four hour stand-off on Saturday, after the Taliban linked men attacked Kabul's election commission headquarters earlier in the morning. (March 29)
Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, according to...
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US undersec for Asia comments about the incident in Pakistan
1. Wide pan of journalists to panel US AID personnel and Assistant US Secretary of State, Richard Boucher
2. Cutaway of Richard Boucher, Assistant US Secretary of State and Henrietta Fore of US AID
3. Cutaway of Richard Boucher
4. Mid of...
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Joint news conference between Afghan President Karzai and Indian PM Singh
1. Various of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewing guard of honour
2. Close-up of cameraman
3. Various of Karzai and Singh shaking hands
4. Wide of Karzai and Singh entering news conference
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NATO chief holds media conference
1. Robertson walks to microphone
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lord George Robertson, NATO Secretary General
"Yesterday evening the United States of America and the United Kingdom began military operations as part of the global operation...
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WRAP Aftermath as bomb rips through police bus killing at least 27
1. Wide of people beside the destroyed bus
2. Rescuers dragging away a body
3. Man trying to get past security
4. Rescuers working through the wreckage
5. Rescuers carrying away a body
6. Rescuers, onlookers and security at the scene
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ISAF, NATO and Spanish presser on crash, file of troops,
APTN FILE - 31 July 2004
Kabul, Afghanistan
1. Various of Spanish soldiers, members of International Security Assistance Force, on patrol in Kabul
APTN - 16 August 2005
Kabul, Afghanistan
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Major Andy Elmes,...
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US defends attack on convoy, says investigation underway
1. View looking down on road
2. Burned out truck
3. Afghan walks around looking towards the ground near burned out wreckage
4. Men standing next to pick-up truck with twisted pieces of metal
5. Men looking through belongings in...
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Army says US sergeant looks 'good' after returning to US after being held byTaliban
Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl "looked good" after arriving back in the United States and is working daily with health professionals after being held by the Taliban for five years in Afghanistan, military officials said on...
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Briefing on latest developments
1. Wide view of briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victoria Clarke, Pentagon spokeswoman.
"The U-S military will soon begin to work with coalition members in the area to clear selected roads in and around Mazar-e-Sharif to pave the way...
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AFGHANISTAN: HUMANITARIAN SITUATION: AID
English/Nat
The U-N Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kenzo Oshima, is on a tour of Afghanistan so that the U-N can better asses the situation of the thousands of people who have been displaced by the war.
On Wednesday,...
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Comments from former Afghan general and UN representative.
1. Wide shot of security outside former Afghan King Zaher Shah's residence, located 10 miles from Rome
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lakhdar Brahimi, U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Afghanistan
"We he can...
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Local television station reopens in wake of Taliban fall
1. TV screen close up
2. Female news host of The Evening News wearing headscarf in front of microphone
3. Three hosts of Evening News seated in front of microphones
4. SOUNDBITE: SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Shimuddin Shamsuddin, anchorman of The...
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US Deputy Secretary of State Burns meets Afghan FM for talks on security, elections, talks with Taliban
1. Various of US Deputy Secretary of State, William Burns meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister, Zalmai Rasoul
2. Mid of Burns' arrival at conference venue
3. Burns and delegation taking seats at talks with Rasoul
4. Wide of the talks...
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Preserving Afghanistan's heritage becomes life-long mission for US woman
Walking the corridors of Kabul University, Nancy Hatch Dupree cuts an authoritative figure.
Much of her own collection - tens of thousands of books, maps, photographs and writings, gathered while she travelled the country for decades...
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Latest Pentagon briefing, more videos
1. Rumsfeld and Myers enter press briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence
"And after six days of strikes against al-Qaida and Taliban military targets we have disrupted their military communications...
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AFGHANISTAN: FIGHTING & STREET BATTLES REIGNITE IN WAR TORN COUNTRY
Islamabad, 25/26/27 March, 1998, Southern Afghanistan, August, 1997
Islamabad, 25 March 1998
1. Mullah Rabbani arrives in car
2. Mullah Rabbani walking and greets Lakhdar Brahimi
3. Close up of Mullah Rabbani and Taliban Ambassador
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