Posted on 05/22/2008 10:05:04 AM PDT by Bokababe
Kabul, 22 May (AKI) - Two Afghan civilians and a NATO soldier were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday during a protest over a US soldier who used a Koran for shooting practice in Iraq.
According to Shah Jahan Noori, chief of police in the western Afghan province of Ghor, the protest involved more than a thousand people who tried to storm a NATO base in Chaghcharan, the provincial capital.
They were shouting slogans against Americans and the West.
"After the police prevented some of the protestors from entering the base, they starting throwing rocks and some of them started shooting at the police and injured 10 officers," said Noori.
Reports say that the protestors were from a religious school.
Earlier this week US President George W. Bush apologised to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for the incident.
The US soldier, who has not been identified, was said to be a staff sergeant in a sniper section in Iraq. He was disciplined and sent home after the Koran was found by Iraqi police earlier this month riddled with bullet holes at a Baghdad shooting range.
The US military had describe the shooting as "both serious and deeply troubling", but stressed it was an "isolated incident and a result of one soldier's actions."
IMHO, we should leave these barbarians to throw rocks at each other for another century or two until they decide that they want to be human.
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