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NEW Press conference on death of Norwegian soldier

(24 May 2004) 1. Various of area where the accident took place on Sunday 2. ISAF corps on the road 3. Police investigation team at the scene 4. Wide of ISAF HQ in Kabul 5. Medium of flag, Norway's flag at half-mast 6. Arrival of ISAF Commanding Officer Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, with Norwegian contingent acting commander Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Flatli at presser 7. Set up at news conference 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Flatli, Norwegian contingent acting commander: (With pauses for translation throughout ) "First of all I would like to express my deepest condolences to the soldier's family, friends and fellow soldiers. And I can assure you that the Norwegian Armed Forces they will support in any way possible." 9. Various cutaways Norwegian soldiers 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Flatli, Norwegian contingent acting commander: (With pauses for translation throughout ) "Despite the tragic incident the Norwegian taskforce will resume normal tasks in Kabul today. We cannot let terrorists attacks scare (us) from securing the wellbeing of the war-weary Afghan population." 11. Journalists asking questions 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, ISAF Commanding Officer: (With pauses for translation throughout ) "We lost a soldier in these last hours, a fine, personable, committed young man who came to this country to help those who desperately need help, and that makes it a tough day for ISAF, for me as a commander and every single soldier in the ISAF irrespective of which country they come from." 13. Cutaway French and Canadian ISAF soldiers 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, ISAF Commanding Officer: (With pauses for translation throughout ) "At about 8:35 p.m. last night three rockets, believed to be RPG7s, were fired from close range from south of Jalalabad road at a Norwegian patrol of four vehicles returning to camp." 15. Cutaway Norwegian soldier 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, ISAF Commanding Officer: "The lead vehicle of the patrol was struck by one round, a second round missed and a third round did not detonate, one Norwegian soldier was killed and one was lightly wounded." 17. Canadian ISAF soldier 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, ISAF Commanding Officer: This makes us realise again that Afghanistan is sometimes a dangerous place." 19. Medium of ISAF general commander Lieutenant general Rick Hillier, with Norwegian contingent acting commander Lieutenant Colonel Robert Flatli at presser 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant-General Rick Hillier, ISAF Commanding Officer: "Any attack on any of our soldiers, at any time, any method, is cause for concern. We are here as guests of the Afghan people, they want us here, the vast majority of them they want to go forward and they want some security and they perceive us as helping them get that security so any attack is a concern. It will not make us more cautious, what it will do is cause us to redouble our efforts to insure that when we do something we do it with maximum force protection for our soldiers while still working to support the Afghan people and the development of that security." 21. Media leaving STORYLINE: A rocket attack on an international peacekeepers' vehicle in Kabul killed one Norwegian soldier and wounded another according to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan on Monday. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...