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Three more killed in cartoon protests
Reuters/boston.com ^ | February 8, 2006 | Sayed Salahuddin

Posted on 02/08/2006 1:53:54 PM PST by ncountylee

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police fired at protesters trying to storm a U.S. military base on Wednesday, killing three and wounding 20 as anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad flared anew.

The latest deaths in the town of Qalat brought the number of Afghans who have been killed in similar protests this week to 10.

The trouble comes as NATO countries are preparing to expand a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, and after a wave of bomb attacks on foreign and Afghan forces and civilian targets blamed on Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

Afghanistan's top religious council called for an end to the demonstrations, saying people would use the disturbances for purposes of sabotage. The Ulema Council also condemned the cartoons, as has the Afghan government.

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To: AmericanChef
Interesting that the Afghan police protected the military base. Our guys could easily blow 'em away, and the natives took care of the problem. Way to go!

I thought this as well. One soldier of ours could wipe out a hell of a lot more ragheads than just 3 or 4! Kudos to the police over there.

21 posted on 02/08/2006 4:14:40 PM PST by Windsong (Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

Call Rove.


22 posted on 02/08/2006 4:37:25 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: tx_eggman

Oh come on...they can do better than that. The Moosies trample a couple thousand every year during their pilgrimage and eighteen died over the Newsweak's fake Koran-in-the-toilet story, so they need to kick it up a notch.


23 posted on 02/08/2006 4:39:52 PM PST by kittymyrib
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