(10 Feb 2002)
Feb 10, 2002
1. Wide of ICRC (Red Cross) headquarters, with released Taliban prisoners outside
2. Released Taliban prisoners waiting at gate
3. Released Taliban prisoners enter ICRC
4. Interior ICRC with released Taliban prisoners sitting
5. Close-up yellow registration card confirming their status as released prisoners entitled to aid
6. Released Taliban prisoner receives money
7. ICRC official counting money and giving it to prisoner
8. Prisoner walks away
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Kleiner, International Committee of the Red Cross
"The people we are now assisting are people who have been released. They are now free to go home. They have all received a personal letter from Mr Hamid Karzai authorising them to go home. We are now giving them some financial support so that they can take a bus and go back to either Herat or Kandahar, or to that region where they are originally from. Hopefully they will be able to start a new life and get back to their families and work."
10. Cutaway
11. Pan from open kitchen to released Taliban prisoners eating
12. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Amon Laa, Released Taliban prisoner from Faragh province
"I am very grateful to the government for releasing us and to the ICRC for the support and money. I hope to go back to my village, to my family and continue my life there."
13. Released taliban prisoners in front of ICRC
Feb 9, 2002 - Night shots
14. Wide of security
15. Cutaway Interior Minister with media
16. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Younous Qanooni, Afghan Interior Minister
"As you know, after the case of Surobi (location where the journalists where killed) some of the terrorists left Afghanistan. We then followed them secretly and when they came back we caught one. We are continuing to investigate that case until we find the others."
17. Cutaway media
18. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Younous Qanooni, Afghan Interior Minister
"During the investigation we have obtained certain information about the incident and we hope we will be able to arrest the other perpetrators."
19. Wide shot of Qanooni talking to reporters
STORYLINE:
More than 300 Taliban prisoners released by Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai have received financial help from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Each so-called "foot soldier" received nine U-S dollars to pay their bus fare home, where they hope to resume normal lives.
The amount is roughly equal to the monthly earnings of a teacher in Afghanistan.
The freed men also received 17 U-S dollars from the government in Kabul in what Karzai described as an ongoing process of releasing Taliban conscripts innocent of war crimes.
The prisoner release policy is aimed at furthering national reconciliation.
Meanwhile, Afghan Interior Minister Younous Qanooni said he was confident more people would be arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of four foreign journalists.
Qanooni was speaking to reporters at the presidential palace in Kabul on Saturday evening.
One of the most vivid and widely reported examples of the chaos that gripped Afghanistan in the post-Taliban power vacuum was the killing of the four foreign journalists as they drove towards Kabul in November just days after the Taliban fled the Afghan capital.
A man has confessed to his involvement in the November 19 execution-style roadside killings.
The man, who wasn't identified, is being questioned and agreed to lead authorities to the area where the killings occurred and show them the slain journalists' belongings.
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