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</p> </div>  <div id="page-content"> <p>US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan’s predominantly Muslim population, video footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to show. </p> <p>Military chaplains stationed in the US air base at Bagram were also filmed with bibles printed in the country’s main Pashto and Dari languages.</p> <p>In one recorded sermon, Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, the chief of the US military chaplains in Afghanistan, is seen telling soldiers that as followers of Jesus Christ, they all have a responsibility "to be witnesses for him".</p> <p>"The special forces guys - they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down," he says.</p> <p>"Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That’s what we do, that’s our business."</p> <h3>Local language Bibles</h3> <p>The footage, shot about a year ago by Brian Hughes, a documentary maker and former member of the US military who spent several days in Bagram, was obtained by Al Jazeera’s James Bays, who has covered Afghanistan extensively.</p> <div style="border-right: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; padding-right: 10px; border-top: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; width: 355px; color: rgb(0,0,0); padding-top: 10px; border-bottom: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; background-color: #fff"><object width="350" height="283"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hVGmbzDLq5c&hl=en&fs=1"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510024124oe_/http://www.youtube.com/v/hVGmbzDLq5c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="283"></embed></object></div> <p>Bays also obtained from Hughes a Pashto-language copy of one of the books he picked up during a Bible study lesson he recorded at Bagram.</p> <p>A Pashto speaker confirmed to Bays that it was a Bible.</p> <p>In other footage captured at Bagram, Sergeant Jon Watt, a soldier who is set to become a military chaplain, is seen giving thanks for the work that his church in the US did in getting Bibles printed and sent to Afghanistan.</p> <p>"I also want to praise God because my church collected some money to get Bibles for Afghanistan. They came and sent the money out," he is heard saying during a Bible study class.</p> <p>It is not clear that the Bibles were distributed to Afghans, but Hughes said that none of the people he recorded in a series of sermons and Bible study classes appeared to able to speak Pashto or Dari.</p> <p>"They weren’t talking about learning how to speak Dari or Pashto, by reading the Bible and using that as the tool for language lessons," Hughes said.</p> <p>"The only reason they would have these documents there was to distribute them to the Afghan people. And I knew it was wrong, and I knew that filming it … documenting it would be important."</p> <p>Pentagon officials have so far not responded to a copy of the footage provided to them, but the distribution of Bibles in a place as politically sensitive as Afghanistan is bound to cause deep concern in Washington, our correspondent says.</p> <h3>Guidelines</h3> <p>It is not clear if the presence of the Bibles and exhortations for soldiers to be "witnesses" for Jesus continues, but they were filmed a year ago despite regulations by the US military’s Central Command that expressly forbid "proselytising of any religion, faith or practice".</p> <p>But in another piece of footage taken by Hughes, the chaplains appear to have found a way around the regulation known as General Order Number One.</p> <p>"Do we know what it means to proselytise?" Captain Emmit Furner, a military chaplain, says to the gathering.</p> <p>"It is General Order Number One," an unidentified soldier replies.</p> <p>But Watt says "you can’t proselytise but you can give gifts".</p> <p>The footage also suggests US soldiers gave out Bibles in Iraq.</p> <p>In his address to a Bible study group at Bagram, Afghanistan, Watt is recorded as saying: "I bought a carpet and then I gave the guy a Bible after I conducted my business.</p> <p>"The Bible wasn’t to be ‘hey, I’ll give you this and I’ll give you a better deal because that would be wrong’, [but] the expressions that I got from the people in Iraq [were] just phenomenal, they were hungry for the word."</p> <p>The footage has surfaced as Barack Obama, the US president, prepares to host Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, at a summit focusing on how to tackle al-Qaeda and Taliban bases dotted along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.</p> <p>Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, will also take part in the talks in Washington, scheduled for May 5 and 6.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090510024124/http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia/2009/05/200953201315854832.html" target="_blank">Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. 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