Afghan Mob Kills 10 United Nations Workers (over Terry Jones Koran burning)

New York Times ^ | April 1, 2011 | ROD NORDLAND

[rightwingintelligentsia]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of demonstrators angered over the burning of a Koran in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, overrunning the compound and killing at least seven foreign staff workers, according to an Afghan officials.

There were conflicting reports of the total number of people killed and whether two of the victims had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also reported killed.

The incident began when thousands of protesters poured out of the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif after Friday prayers and attacked the nearby headquarters of the United Nations, according to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, spokesman for Gen. Daoud Daoud, the Afghan National Police commander for northern Afghanistan.

After disarming or shooting the United Nations compound’s guards, the crowd surged inside. Mr. Ahmadzai said that eight of the foreign staff workers, whose nationalities were not known immediately, were killed by gunfire, and that two others were captured by the mob and beheaded. Other reports said that the operations center was burned down as well.

The governor of Balkh Province, Atta Mohammad Noor, said that seven United Nations employees were killed in all, five Nepali security guards and two European international staff, one of them a woman. He said earlier reports of beheadings were unfounded; all of the victims were shot.

The crowd, which he estimated at 20,000, overwhelmed police forces and the United Nations security guards, and the weapons they used in the attack may have been those they seized from the United Nations guards, he said.

[Antoninus]

Congratulations. Your actions in hopes of getting more TV time has succeeded. And icing on the cake is that 8 people who had nothing to do with your need for publicity are dead today, slaughtered because of your burning a Koran. It is the fault of the Islamic mob that these poor souls died. It is your fault that you burnt their holy book knowing that somewhere in the world, others would pay for your actions with their lives.

Please. These people are enslaved to a savage ideology. If the report of a Koran-burning is enough to send them into a murderous rampage, anything will. Don't you get that? They're just waiting for a reason to kill. If someone doesn't provide one for them, after a while they'll just make one up.

[denydenydeny]

Note that the outraged mob wasn’t quite so outraged that they attacked any actual Americans. They knew enough to go after the bluehelmets.

[theDentist]

And you can prove one was written by man inspired and guided by God how?
And you can prove the other one was not written by man inspired and guided by from God how?

And both have been interpreted and edited and re-edited and re-interpreted by Men over the centuries.

[theDentist]

So this means you stand with Islamic extremists? :-)

[CodeToad]

See, ya just had to go and post again. Hope you're happy now. It's all your fault.

[theDentist]

Well, leaves me with only one question: You got some paprika?

[CodeToad]

With a little lemon, that could be a good dish. :)

[theDentist]

Plugging in the food processor now!