Posted on 04/03/2011 9:55:34 AM PDT by marthemaria
KABUL (Reuters) – An angry mob that killed seven foreign UN staff in north Afghanistan ripped out the door of a bunker where several had taken shelter, and slit the throat of one man who survived a bullet, the top UN envoy in the country said on Saturday.
Staffan de Mistura promised that the United Nations would stay in Afghanistan after the vicious assault, the deadliest it has faced in Afghanistan, but would have to reconsider security, particularly guarantees from Afghan forces.
He also warned that the Afghan government need to do more to prevent attacks like this if it wanted to keep the support of the international community as other nations face war and headline-grabbing unrest and absorb money and energy.
"We are not leaving," de Mistura told a small group of journalists in the Afghan capital, after flying back from Mazar-i-Sharif where he handled the aftermath of the attack.
Afghan police were the first line of protection on Friday when a crowd of up to 3,000 demonstrators enraged by the burning of a Koran by a militant fundamentalist Christian in the United States overran the compound, killing seven staff.
De Mistura said the violence, in a normally peaceful city, had caught ill-prepared Afghan police by surprise, and the gurkhas who are the next layer of security for the United Nations could not open fire because they are forbidden to shoot into crowds that contain civilians.
"Its clear if the Afghan police had a cordon of separation between the demonstration and the building, the building would not have been attacked," he said.
"The reality is that our gurkhas are never going to shoot at civilians, so the demonstration became an entry point, making it gradually impossible for our own gurkhas, our own security to intervene."
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Of course he is.
Are we sure this “pastor” isn’t doing exactly what Obama wants? Last time this guy made news he was pretty effective at giving Obama cover.
These sub-human savages are a pestilence upon this planet. And in private, the muslim in the white house cheering them on.
Libtards are like Doritos though, they'll make more.
HHmm...this HAS taken Trump and the BC off the headline.
The Mob knows that the UN are a bunch of pussies who would never fire back.
Gurkhas are brave, but where was the planning for being overrun? If it were so clear that after mosque on Friday tends to be a troublesome time, and so clear that a pastor burning a koran, as is his American right, would be followed by this, where was security?
They said a cleric instigated the mob. My question is, why has not Obama demanded that our troops take out that cleric?
Exactly!!!! He is cover for the civilian atrocities and pictures.
Had it been Bush in office, you know damn well that would have gotten the blame, but Obama gets to deflect it, by blaming the pastor.
This is troubling. They’re normally such peaceful people.
Now, now. To be fair to Obama, he did say these murders were upsetting to him.
So much so that, at one point, the thought of them caused him to miss a short putt.
Islam is a vile, barbaric, depraved, perverted, seditious, gutter ‘religion’ created by a murdering pedophile. It should be wiped off the face of the earth, starting in America.
Game over dude!
I am really starting to dislike these @#$%ing savages.
I guarantee there will be a call from the UN to do something about this and I don’t mean events in Pakistan.
Didn’t muslims just drop their call for UN action on religious blaspheme? They get to show how “reasonable” they are when a Christian comes along and stirs them up.
Once again the Religion of Peace indulges in a litte bloody revenge. But its the Christians fault as usual. I say we burn a few Korans every Friday just before Happy Hour.
Animals.
This “preacher” who burned the Koran could have done his congregation a far better service by handing one out to each and every person in his “church”. He should have educated his congregation. Islam is vile.
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