Posted on 05/11/2005 8:40:07 AM PDT by ppaul
Kabul: Three people were killed and at least 60 injured when police clashed with more than 5000 Afghans infuriated by reports that US soldiers had desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay prison camp."We have two dead in our hospital and 47 wounded. Three of the people injured are in a serious condition," said Mohammed Ayob, deputy director of the public health hospital in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
"The medical university hospital, the second hospital of the city, has registered one dead and 12 wounded are in hospital. Some other people with light injuries were cared for and have been discharged."
Witnesses said police opened fire as the crowd rampaged through the city yesterday.
Jalalabad police chief Abdul Rehman said: "Initially the demonstrators were peaceful but then a group joined them and the mob turned violent."
Western security sources said the governor's office and those of several aid agencies including UNICEF, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, were set on fire.
The US State Department said on Tuesday that the Pentagon was looking into a report in Newsweek magazine that interrogators at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, kept copies of the Koran in toilets to annoy prisoners.
The protesters, which one police source in Jalalabad said numbered "maybe 10,000", also denounced US-backed President Hamid Karzai, shouting: "Death to America's allies" and "Death to Karzai" as well as "Death to Bush". US troops stationed in the city stayed in their base, witnesses said.
The reports have also infuriated close US ally Pakistan.
The mostly Muslim country's foreign ministry demanded an explanation while parliament and cricket hero-turned politician Imran Khan urged Washington to apologise.
Mr Karzai is due to visit the US this month where he said he will seek special long-term ties with Washington.
¡ The US and other countries have secretly sent scores of Islamist prisoners to Egypt since the mid-1990s, where they have likely been tortured, a human rights group said on Tuesday.
Human Rights Watch issued a 53-page report criticising Egypt as the world's main recipient of prisoners, including suspected Islamist militants believed to offer useful intelligence for the US war on terrorism.
The report, titled Black Hole: The Fate of Islamists Rendered to Egypt, identifies 61 people who have been transferred into Egyptian custody since 1994.
The US State Department said on Tuesday that the Pentagon was looking into a report in Newsweek magazine that interrogators at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, kept copies of the Koran in toilets to annoy prisoners.Can you imagine all this brou-ha-ha if during WWII it was discovered that U.S. GI's were keeping copies of Mein Kampf in latrines? Horrors!
The [Human Rights Watch] report, titled Black Hole: The Fate of Islamists Rendered to Egypt, identifies 61 people who have been transferred into Egyptian custody since 1994
Just 61 in 11 years? That's all? BFD.
Cattle.
Mein Kampf was/is not a religious text. Big difference.
Wait til these clowns get a gander at Q'ran TP...
Irresponsible Newsweak.
Thank you Newsweek for once again be the TRAITOROUS B*stards that you and the rest of the MSM are.
What is going to happen when they learn that I use pages of the Koran to wipe my ass everyday? That I fart toward Mecca should really drive them off the edge.
Do Muslims ever have "demonstrations" that don't turn violent?
Violence is Islam's main tenet...
one more thing Newsweek, if it were WWII and your Hero, Socialist Franklin, were to do something like this against...oh lets say the Japanese....you would have kept your f*cking mouths shut now wouldn't you (and the MSM in general)
Neither is the KORAN,.....IT'S A HOW TO BOOK FOR MURDERS !!!IMHO
Mein Kampf ? Not quite the same as a "sacred document" revered by millions. After all the trouble to avoid even the appearance of this conflict being a "holy war", this kind of religious insult was needlessly reckless. My opinion.
I do not consider Islam to be a holy religion. It is a murderous cult established by Satan. But that's just my opinion. Which would, incidently, get me killed in many Muslim countries by their governments. Which would prove my point....
"Mein Kampf was/is not a religious text. Big difference."
Not really. Hitler was the German's "God".
And islam is not a religion, it's a cult of death.
The comparison is therefore valid.
"...this kind of religious insult was needlessly reckless."
So was reporting the incident.
I wonder if those on this thread making light of this would have similar feelings of joy if the bible or torah was used in the same way.
I'm kinda looking at this little uprising as a "signal" to others when I tie it to everything else going on....an excuse for some sneaky Arabs to gather there or elsewhere.
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