INDEPTH: A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
Behind the Scenes
CBC News Online | February 20, 2004
A few people have asked this week where we're staying at the base and...
...where we're doing the broadcast.
You see a lot of these around the base. They're bunkers.
Those long benches are where everyone would take cover if necessary.
We're broadcasting from the top of one of the bunkers.
Like the soldiers and other journalists here, we're sleeping in a tent, only ours happens to be in the camp's detention centre.
We're editing on laptop computers...
...and sending the pictures out on a Turkish satellite truck operated by two Afghans.
You can see it's a multinational effort here.
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