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Re: Afghanistan:12 Years of Violence - Getting Closer??

Posted by Paul McMillan on Tue Nov 13, 2001 07:35:51 AM

In reply top Afghanistan:12 Years of Violence posted by george on Tue Nov 13, 2001 07:03:11 AM

Right

George saw this program on the TLC


Sunday, October 28, 2001

AFGHANISTAN: 12 YEARS OF VIOLENCE
10:00 P.M. -TLC-
Afghanistan is a world center for smuggling drugs and precious stones.

From: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Afghanistan+%2212+years+of+violence%22&hl=en&rnum=3&selm=20011028082851.18516.00000308%40mb-mi.aol.com

Now. We know John Simpson produced this program:

From http://www.newsworld.co.uk/Rsf/johnsimpson.html

we have "
Critical acclaim for his work has included being named Royal Television
Society Journalist of the Year (1991), which he shared with the then
BBC Political Editor John Cole, a CBE in the Gulf War Honours, an
RTS award for International Current Affairs (1996), a
Peabody Trust Award for News and
The One World Best Bi-Media News award for the Afghanistan trilogy for Newsnight"

Now Newsnight and Afghanisatan gives us:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_564000/564772.stm

I think this program was originaly filmed for Newsnight in 1999 and bits were re-edited for the TLC program

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