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COMMENTS: Get Out the Vote, Taliban-style
NBC's Richard Engel won awards for his Tip of the Spear battlefield footage of USArmy firefights with Taliban guerrillas in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. Now CBS' Mandy Clark gets in on the act with her Exclusive from Nuristan Province. She holed up with a hundred soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division in the village of Barge Matal as guerrillas attacked from surrounding mountain ridges. At the end of the firefight a guerrilla's corpse revealed the motive for the attack. In an attempt to suppress turnout in the national elections in August, the Taliban had confiscated the villagers' voter registration cards: 88 of them were stuffed in the dead man's purse.
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