(13 Jun 2005) SHOTLIST
Kandahar ++TOKO - QUALITY AS INCOMING++
1. Wounded being taken on stretchers to military helicopter
2. Military vehicles at the scene
3. Helicopter on the ground with blades spinning
4. Wide of street traffic
5. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Mahmoud Aziz, eyewitness:
"I was travelling to Kandahar. I heard a big noise. I saw one of the civilian vehicles and a US vehicle in an accident, but I didn't know if it was a bomb or an accident, and I don't know about casualties."
6. Afghan soldiers on guard
7. Men standing on the side of the road
Kabul
8. Wide of press conference
9. Cutaway media
10. Close up of hand writing on a notepad
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel James Yonts, American forces spokesperson:
"Earlier today, about two hours ago, a provisional reconstruction team was travelling outside of Kandahar when an IED exploded, injuring four US service members. Of those four service members, one of them is seriously wounded. The service members were flown to Kandahar airfield where they are receiving medical attention at this time."
12. Media
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel James Yonts, American forces spokesperson:
"I do not know anymore on the nature of the injuries or the cause of this incident, who caused this incident, but it is a sad thing when coalition forces supporting the Afghan people inside of Kandahar, the provincial reconstruction team (PRT) supporting those Afghan people are attacked by someone in this nature. PRT as you know is here to support the Afghan people. They are not here as combat forces."
14. Media seated at press conference
15. Close up of sign reading, "Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan"
STORYLINE:
An explosion near a U.S. military vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday wounded four American troops, a U.S. military spokesman said, the latest in a series of bloody assaults on coalition forces.
The vehicle was hit by the blast near the main southern city of Kandahar.
The deputy police chief for Kandahar city said a suicide bomber had rammed a car full of explosives into the US vehicle.
However, American forces spokesman Colonel James Yonts told reporters in Kabul that the cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Yonts said the four wounded, one in a serious condition, were flown to a U.S. airfield in Kandahar for medical treatment.
Monday's bombing follows an upsurge in attacks by Taliban-led rebels in recent weeks, which the government claims marks an effort to sabotage legislative elections due in September.
On June 1, a suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber killed 20 people at the funeral of an anti-Taliban cleric in Kandahar, one of the worst terror attacks since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.
Five American troops have also died in attacks earlier this month.
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