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.
These one billion deluded people need to be shown a better way; it is the imams' fear that if Islam has to compete equally with other beliefs that Islam will wither and die, along with the imams' control over the people.Nothing else so simply explains their determination to silence all other beliefs.
That's apples and oranges.
Now we have "Mein Quran" and its ignoble verses..
Dead right on.
Agreed. If your freedom doesn't pose a threat to anyone, then go ahead.
Thanks. :)
I realize it's been a while since September 11, 2001, but if you fail to recognize that this IS a holy war, then you'd probably be oblivious to the Qu'ran TP as well.
Remind me, was Hitler a pedophile too?
That has never been established by any historian or researcher. Hitler's sexuality has been the discussion of numerous researchers over the years. There are many murky parts to it, but there are some things we know:
- One of Hitler's very young girlfriends committed suicide in Hitler's apartment just when he was rising to power
- Many, many of Hitler's confidants and close friends were homosexual, including Ernst Rhom.
- Hitler's personal secretary, several aides, and many high ranking Nazi friends said that the only person he ever loved was his mother
Very good points.
Stone age ignorant ragheads rioting and killing over a rumor.
Yeah...and pretty ignorant about a lot of other things, too, unfortunately.
yeah, but there's a really good reason they only throw rocks...
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/kickback.html
I agree. You don't do this by trashing their beliefs, though. I consider myself a Christian, probably because that's how I was raised, but not a very observant one at all. However, even I get ticked off if someone trashes the Bible. Ideas are the weapons in this war, not guns, ant it's always been a common sense axiom that you don't give your enemies ammuniton.
Our very existence is what motivates them...are you gonna volunteer to end your existence to try to minimize jihadist violence?
The post I was replying to was regarding the life of a soldier. I admit I may be completely wrong on this, but isn't this pretty much what soldiers do? Risk (and often lose) their lives to lessen, if not eliminate, threats to national security? At least that's the way it seems. I'd say jihadist violence falls into this category.
And, a teetotaler.
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