Combat Camera Video: Afghanistan Road to Stability - Mini Documentary

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Dispatches from the Front:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2009 -- Embedded above is a mini-documentary about how the American, NATO and ISAF forces are gaining security for Afghans by mentoring and training the Afghanistan National Army to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida, providing humanitarian aid to locals, protecting civilians and providing other solutions to economic problems Afghan families face.

Interviewees:

• Brigadier David Hook (AU), Director of Operations, RC south
• Abdul Rahim Wardak (AF), Defense Minister of Afghanistan
• Malik Saifullah (AF), Village leader, Wazir District
• Lt. Gen. Jim Dutton (AU), Deputy Commander ISAF
• Gen. Stanley McChrystal (US), Commander, ISAF
• Air Commodore Ian Teakle (GB), ISAF, Kabul
• Mohammad Daoud Sultanzoi (AF), Afghan Member of Parliament
• Aryan Yoon (AF), Afghan MP

(NATO TV video. Length: 00:08:29.)

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