++CLIENTS PLEASE
NOTE - THIS MATERIAL WAS
SHOT BY AN ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEVISION CAMERAMAN EMBEDDED WITH THE US MILITARY++
1.
Various of
Afghan National Army (
ANA) soldiers patrolling through
Korengal Valley towards
Aliabad school
2. Wide of Aliabad boys school
3.
US Marine embedded trainer with soldiers
4.
Village elder sitting on ground, tilt up to soldiers
5. Various of school supplies donated by a private individual from
Hawaii, being gathered and handed to students by ANA captain
6.
Close of supplies inside bag
7. Boy receiving bag of school supplies
8. Pan of ANA 3rd Kandak (
Battalion) 2nd
Company Captain Mubarak Shah talking to pupils at Aliabad
School
9. Various of boys sitting in class
10. Close of
Shah learning local dialect, Korengali
11. UPSOUND (
Pashto) Shah asking pupil "What do you think of the Taliban?"
12. UPSOUND (Pashto) Shah asking students "You like the
Americans or the Taliban?", boy replies "I don't know"
13. Close of writing on blackboard: (
English) "This is a book"
14. Shah and elder in front of students, Shah walks off
15. Shah walks out of classroom
16. ANA soldier, pan to mountains
17. SOUNDBITE (
Dari) Captain Mubarak Shah, Afghan National Army:
"It works.
Whenever we give something to their sons, their fathers think 'OK, the ANA is helping us
..." ++SOUNDBITE INTERRUPTED BY GUNFIRE++
18.
US Marines Embedded Training Team (
ETT) soldiers runs past, UPSOUND: gunfire as ANA troops hiding behind school wall begin to battle Taliban
19. US Marine returns fire
20. Various of
Marines and ANA soldiers firing
21. ANA soldier runs
22. US Marine swears as incoming rounds pass close by
23. Various of firing
24. Village elder peeps over school wall, pulls out
25.
Marine runs past ANA sheltering behind school wall
26. Shah points to smoke from US white phosphorus mortar round rising across valley
27. ANA soldier reloads a magazine
28. Marine trainer runs past, UPSOUND from another marine: (
English) "We've got a smoke screen ready for us, it's happening right now so we've got to start pushing."
29.
Tracking shot Marines and ANA soldiers sprint away from school, out of ambush zone
30. Marine runs towards camera, UPSOUND (English) "Come on come on!"
31. ANA radio
operator
32. Shah on radio telling base that all are safe
33.
Pull out from smoke on mountainside, pan to soldiers returning to base
STORYLINE:
Taliban fighters ambushed US Marines and
Afghan troops during a school supply mission in Eastern
Afghanistan on Saturday, sparking a fierce firefight.
The school is in the Korengal Valley, which has earned the nickname '
The Valley of Death' among troops, who consider it one of the most dangerous places to be based in the whole country.
Early on Saturday, a company of Afghan National Army (ANA) troops, accompanied by US Marine trainers embarked on a mission to deliver classroom supplies donated from Hawaii to the village of Aliabad.
The morning's events were filmed by a cameraman embedded with
US forces in Afghanistan.
The mission began smoothly. The captain in charge of the ANA handed out the 60 bags of supplies to the 380 students, who range in age from five to 12.
In a classroom, the Afghan commander, Captain Mubarak Shah, asks a boy what he thinks of the Taliban.
"You like the Americans or the Taliban?" he asks. The boy replies "I don't know," while others answer: "Taliban".
The troops suspect many of the boys' fathers may in fact be Taliban fighters, and are prepared for what happens next.
The military believes someone in the village, or a spotter nearby, has alerted the Taliban to the mission.
Shots ring out just as Captain Shah is explaining how the strategy of reaching out to this community is winning some locals over.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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