(27 Oct 2011)
1. Various shots of US military vehicles
2. Wide shot of the attack site, UPSOUND: Gunfire
3. Wide distance shot of building where the attackers were reported to be hiding, UPSOUND: Gunfire
4. Mid shot of Afghan security forces
5. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) vox pop, Lal Mohammad, Kandahar resident:
"I was working in my garden, then when I went for prayers the fighting started and the soldiers wouldn't allow me to get back to my garden."
6. Various shots of Afghan National Army soldiers
7. Wide shot of helicopter flying overhead
8. Various shots of Afghan security forces
STORYLINE:
Insurgents attacked a U.S.-run civilian and military base with rocket-propelled grenades and guns in a brazen early afternoon assault on Thursday in the southern city of Kandahar, a traditional Taliban stronghold, Afghan officials said.
Two attackers were killed.
Kandahar provincial police chief, General Abdul Razzaq, who was at the base for a meeting when the attack began, said at least three insurgents took over an office in front of the base and started shooting.
Fighting was continuing at the base, which is home to NATO troops, including Americans, and a provincial reconstruction team.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said in an email that the attack on the base began at roughly 2:45 p.m., with the attackers using
rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
NATO said no coalition troops were killed in the attack. Two coalition troops were wounded, according to an Afghan employee.
Medical officials at a hospital in Kandahar said that at least two civilians and a member of the Afghan security forces were wounded in the attack on the base.
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