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To: Kaslin
London Telegraph


An effigy of Terry Jones, the US preacher, burns during a demonstration in Shinwar

The shootings came as rioting, which has claimed over 20 lives and left 150 injured, continued across Afghanistan. In the eastern city of Jalalabad, up to a thousand protesters blocked the main highway to Kabul and set alight effigies of Terry Jones, the evangelical preacher who supervised the burning of a copy of the Koran in Florda last month. Protesters in Lashkar Gah, in the southern province of Helmand, dispersed after shots were fired by police, killing two suicide bombers who were attempting to infiltrate the demonstration. Twelve people died in Kandahar over the weekend, when demonstrators waving Taliban flags and shouting "Death to America" burned cars, smashed shops and sacked a high school for girls. Seven UN staff were killed on Friday, along with five Afghans, after demonstrators overran their office in the normally-peaceful city of Mazar-e-Sharif

406 posted on 04/04/2011 9:06:51 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
...in the normally-peaceful city of Mazar-e-Sharif

Afghanistan is a war zone. There are peaceful cities? Hell, we should all move there. There's nothing peaceful about the city I live. Murder, home invasions, carjackings, arson, armed robberies, pick one. Each high crime occurs daily, sometimes multiple incidences of each.

So I am thinking of moving to the "peaceful" town of Mazar-e-Sharif.

408 posted on 04/04/2011 9:23:00 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

I don’t care about the UN, I care about our troops.


410 posted on 04/05/2011 4:34:22 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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