Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
Mazar- I-Sharif Security Chief performs rounds: his incredibly dangerous job is to go around with a unit of gunmen & challenge other gunmen & disarm them. The style here is very cinema verite i.e. Cops. (E.P.)
Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
MS men walk away from truck. MS State Afghan soldiers in Soviet brown woodland camouflage uniforms carry AK-47 rifles (some with folding stock) and .50 caliber light machine guns. Man is interrogated near Toyota Four Runner SUV by Security Chief. MS soldier wearing woodland camouflage, suggesting US-aided Northern Alliance. MS interrogation near SUV, several soldiers in woodland camouflage surround them. MS Pan along soldiers with guns standing guard near the Toyota SUV. MS man signing papers near the SUV. MS soldiers stand guard as Security Chief gets into the car.
Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
MS interior of car during ride along w/ Security Chief en route to scene (note the CB radio & ethnic knickknacks on dashboard). The camera is in the backseat. The car comes to a stop and Afghan soldiers talk with the Security Chief. The car continues driving through traffic. MS of Afghan soldier's face reflected in rearview mirror. CU knickknacks on dashboard. CU CB radio on dashboard. Sideview Security Chief's face. MS interior of the car. The car comes to a stop near a group of soldiers. The chief exits the car to talk with the soldiers.
Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
Shaky shots of soldiers and Afghan men congregating. More Afghan soldiers & security police, inc two heavily-armed police officers wearing white helmets. Some soldiers wear khaki or Western woodland camouflage kepi hats. MS driver sitting in car. Much banter among large military & police contingent. MS soldiers and men walking around. MS Security Chief talking to soldiers.
Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
MS soldiers sitting in the back of a pickup truck and talking to each other. MS Security Chief surrounded by a crowd. MS back inside the car with the Security Chief as the car drives off through traffic. MS top of an AK-47 sticking up from the floor of the car behind the Security Chief's seat. The cameraman gets out of the car and walks behind several Afghan soldiers. MS Several white-helmeted police officers climb onto flatbed of red Toyota pickup truck and drive off.
Mazar Security Chief Makes Rounds
MS One of General Dostum s soldiers standing sentry outside the Afghan ministry building; soldiers wears Soviet brown woodland camouflage uniform, and dig the keen Soviet Red Star emblem belt buckle. This could very well be an old Spesnaz (Soviet Special Forces) uniform from the Soviet invasion era. CU belt buckle. MS several soldiers sitting in flatbed of Toyota pickup truck with Soviet-made light & heavy machine guns, RPG rocket launchers-- seriously heavily armed. CU soldiers' faces. MS decreipt yellow and white taxi waiting to cross the street. MS pan across Afghan soldiers standing with weapons near a red pickup truck. MS Afghan man wearing ethnic turban poses proudly with Ruchnoi Pulemyot Degtyaryev (RDP) light machine gun, flanked by soldiers.