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The lead foreign correspondents of the three networks all flew into Kabul ahead of next week's presidential election. NBC's Richard Engel arrived from Beirut; ABC's Jim Sciutto from London; CBS' Lara Logan from Washington DC. All three narrated the same footage of the Battle of Dahaneh, an eight-hour firefight between 400 Marines and Taliban guerrillas over the dusty town in Helmand Province. "If the Taliban is able to stop large numbers of people from voting in the south then the credibility of the election could be in doubt," CBS' Logan stated, accounting for the Marine Corps' town-by-town sweep through Helmand. ABC's Sciutto estimated that as many as 10% of Afghanistan's polling stations would be unable to open on election day. NBC's Engel pointed to Taliban leaflets threatening to slit the throat of anyone who votes and saw far greater dangers: "Nearly half of Afghanistan remains at high risk of a Taliban attack."
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