VARIOUS: AFGHAN RESIDENTS HAVE BEGUN EVACUATING AREAS AFTER RECENT UNITED STATES MISSILE STRIKES

Record ID: 988496

  • Title: VARIOUS: AFGHAN RESIDENTS HAVE BEGUN EVACUATING AREAS AFTER RECENT UNITED STATES MISSILE STRIKES
  • Date: 23rd August 1998
  • Summary: THURKHUM, AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER 1. SCU DAMAGED ROAD SIGN WITH LV REFUGEES EVACUATING FROM PAKISTAN COMING OUT OF JALALABAD ON ROAD IN DISTANCE / STREET SCENES / SLV PEOPLE PACKING UP AND MOVING OUT WITH THEIR BELONGINGS/ PUSHING BELONGINGS IN WHEELBARROWS / LOADING VEHICLES (15 SHOTS) 1.49 2. HAS PRO-TALEBAN DEMO; SHOUTING SLOGANS (8 SHOTS) 3.22 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN 3. SCU FAZLUR-REHMAN KHALIL, LEADER OF HARKAT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN JAMMU AND KASHMIR GROUP SEATED AT NEWS CONFERENCE / SLV MEDIA (2 SHOTS) 3.27 3. SCU FAZLUR-REHMAN KHALIL, LEADER OF HARKAT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN JAMMU AND KASHMIR GROUP SEATED AT NEWS CONFERENCE / SLV MEDIA (2 SHOTS) 3.27 4. SCU FAZLUR-REHMAN KHALIL SAYING "THERE WERE NO TRAINING CAMPS ON THE SITE THE U.S. BOMBS INSTEAD, LANDED ON ONE OF OUR MOSQUES AND A LIBRARY POSSESSING THE ISLAMIC BOOKS. BOTH OF WHICH WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN THE ATTACK." (URDU) 4.01 5. SLV NEWS CONFERENCE 4.06 KHOST, AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER 6. SCU CAMELS LOADED WITH BOXES BEING LED ALONG ROAD / SLV CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 4.23 MIRAM SHAH, PAKISTAN 7. SLV EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 4.28 8. SCU RELATIVES WAITING OUTSIDE HOSPITAL 4.36 9. SLV /SCU INJURED IN HOSPITAL WARD (4 SHOTS) 5.02 10. SCU INJURED SAYING: "I WAS SITTING OUTSIDE MY HOUSE AND SUDDENLY SOMETHING HIT ME AND AFTER THAT I DON'T KNOW - I JUST FOUND MYSELF AT THE HOSPITAL." (URDU) 5.26 11. SCU INJURED MAN SITTING ON HOSPITAL BED 5.33 KHOST, AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER 12. SLV AFGHANS AT THE KHOST BORDER TOWN 5.46 13. MV ARMED TALEBAN SOLDIER 5.56 12. SLV AFGHANS AT KHOST BORDER TOWN (2 SHOTS) 6.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MIRAM SHAH, PAKISTAN/ TOR KHAMA, AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER/ KHOST, AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER/ ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN
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  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA5ND2U23FN1JRZPIU62D3DGNHG
  • Story Text:Residents have begun evacuating areas in Afghanistan after the recent U.S.missile attacks.

    Residents from Jalalabad in Afghanistan fled on Saturday (August 22) to town of Thurkhum which is located on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

    Those who have arrived in the town staged a demonstration in support of the Taleban group.

    The United States launched U.S.missile strikes into Sudan and Afghanistan on Thursday (August 19).

    Washington said the attacks were in retaliation for the the bombings of U.S.embassies in East Africa that killed 263 people, including 12 Americans.

    The official radio of Afghanistan's Taleban movement reported 21 people killed and 30 wounded by the U.S.attack on targets near the town of Khost.Witnesses and security sources told visiting Pakistani reporters at least 11 people had been killed and 53 wounded.

    Angered by the attacks, Islamic militants have threatened to retaliate.

    In Islamabad, a Kashmiri militant group whose training camp was destroyed by U.S.missile strikes in eastern Afghanistan threatened "Americans and Jews to prepare for their destruction." At a news conference in Islamabad on Saturday (August 22), Fazlur-Rehman Khalil said there were no training camps on the site hit by the U.S.missile strike.

    Khalil said 21 members of the group were killed in the attack on its training camps near Khost.

    Earlier, a statemen from the same group had said nine of its members had been killed in the attack.There was no explanation for the discrepancy in the death toll.

    Khalil denied his organisation was a terrorist organisation.He said its members were freedom fighters, who along with several militant groups, were fighting a guerilla war agaiinst the Indian army.

    An earlier fax stament from the group had warned Americans and Jews to "prepare for their destruction." Harkat-ul-Mujahideen was formerly known as Harkat-ul-Ansar.

    Washington listed Harkat-ul-Ansar as one of 30 groups labelled "foreign terrorist organisations," making it illegal to provide them with funds and denying their members or representatives U.S.visas.
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