CNN - Situation Room and Lou Dobbs Tonight - 2006-05-29

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[0:01] putting the spotlight on Mayor

[0:03] Bloomberg. Wolf Blitzer is off today.

[0:05] I'm John King. You're in the situation

[0:07] room.

[0:24] The capital of Afghanistan is under

[0:26] curfew right now after the worst rioting

[0:28] in Kbble since the fall of the Taliban

[0:30] government. Anti-American anger swept

[0:32] through the city after a US military

[0:34] truck crashed into a crowd of

[0:35] pedestrians. Also today, the worst wave

[0:38] of violence to hit Baghdad in days.

[0:40] Among the targets, an open air market

[0:42] and a US military convoy being covered

[0:45] by a CBS news crew. All this as

[0:47] Americans mark Memorial Day. President

[0:49] Bush says the United States can honor

[0:51] the war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan by

[0:53] finishing their missions. We begin this

[0:56] hour though in Afghanistan. Our Pentagon

[0:57] correspondent Barbara Star is there with

[0:59] us via video phone from Kabell. Barbara?

[1:04] Well, John, it has been an extraordinary

[1:06] day here in the capital city of Kabell.

[1:09] Early this morning, a US military convoy

[1:12] was involved in a serious traffic

[1:13] accident with a number of vehicles.

[1:16] Apparently one Afghan civilian at least

[1:18] was killed, several injured, a number of

[1:21] vehicles involved. And at that point,

[1:24] apparently violence broke out. The US

[1:27] had tried to render medical aid to the

[1:29] injured. But when the US vehicles then

[1:32] were going to leave the scene after

[1:34] rendering that aid, a riot broke out.

[1:36] According to the video that has now been

[1:39] shown, it's pretty clear what happened.

[1:42] Afghan civilians angry began stoning the

[1:45] US military convoy. The US military

[1:48] convoy attempted to leave the area, but

[1:51] t