(3 Jan 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of scene of blast with American soldiers running towards the exploded car
2. American soldier investigating exploded car
3. More of soldiers investigating blown up car
4. Close up of car wreckage
5. More of American soldiers investigating car
6. Afghan policeman picking up pieces of debris from car
7. Two American humvees with American soldiers
8. Mid shot of American soldier on top of humvee
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Colonel Ges (no surname given), Taskforce commander in Kandahar:
"Here in the Kandahar province we had a coalition forces patrol going through here and it's just another sad example of a terrorist bomber sacrificing his own body, with no effect against coalition forces, but also injuring local Afghan people. Again, not very effective means of operations, it only kills themselves and local Afghan people."
10. Mid shot of car wreckage with Afghan soldiers
11. Mid shot of Colonel Ges and other officer walking past car
12. Afghan national Army next to exploded car, with investigator picking up piece of car
13. Mid shot of Afghan national army soldiers on pickup truck
14. Humvees leaving area of explosion
STORYLINE
A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car near a U.S. military convoy in a southern Afghan city on Monday, killing himself and wounding an American soldier and two passers-by, officials said.
The convoy was attacked as it drove through the city of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold and the site of a string of recent suicide bombings.
Charred parts of the car the bomber used were strewn around the area.
"It just another sad example of a terrorist bomber sacrificing his own body, with no effect against coalition forces, but also injuring local Afghan people," said Lieutenant Colonel Ges (no surname given), a Taskforce commander in Kandahar.
From Kabul, a U.S. military spokesman said one U.S. soldier was slightly hurt in the attack.
Kandahar Governor Asadullah Khalid identified the wounded passers-by as a woman and a child.
Both were taken to a local hospital.
Police and Afghan soldiers, as well as U.S. and Canadian troops, cordoned off the area.
The blast follows a string of suicide attacks and comes days after a top Taliban rebel commander, Mullah Dadullah, claimed that more than 200 insurgents were willing to kill themselves in assaults on U.S. forces and their allies.
Afghanistan's government dismissed the claim as propaganda, though President Hamid Karzai said last month that he expects attacks to continue.
Last year was the deadliest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001 for harbouring Osama bin Laden.
The fighting has killed about 1,600 people as militants belonging to the Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups have stepped up attacks.
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