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NBC ran three fewer minutes of commercials than usual (a 22 min newshole v ABC 18, CBS 19) and assigned that extra time to extending Richard Engel's Tip of the Spear report from the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. He followed-up on the USArmy platoon of Viper Company that he first covered last October with action footage of a firefight in an abandoned hillside farmhouse. Engel intercut his own video with first person footage taken by a sergeant named Christopher Thompson, who documented the duel by wearing a helmetcam. Altogether eight soldiers from Viper Company have been killed since Engel started covering them. None in this particular skirmish even though the troops "think they killed three of four Taliban fighters."
Andrew Tyndall 7/3/09 7:59:50 pm

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