Afghan Protests Against Koran Burning Turn Violent

[spanone]

the wonderful results of religion...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Protests in Afghanistan turned violent on Friday over plans by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran, even after the pastor announced he was not going through with the event.

Five Afghan protesters were wounded, three of them critically, when hundreds of men tried to force their way onto a NATO reconstruction base at Faisabad, capital of Badakshan Province in northern Afghanistan, according to civilian authorities.

Muhammad Amin, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said four Afghan security officers were also wounded but he said that earlier reports that a protester had been shot to death proved false.

Aga Noor Kentooz, the provincial police commander in Faisabad, said that that four people were wounded by shots fired from inside the base when a mob tried to force its way in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/asia/11afghan.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

[dkf]

1. We need to get out of Afghanistan.

[msongs]

2. religion = the gift that keeps on giving lol nt

[Bragi]

3. "lol" !!!! Really? /nt