KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police fired at protesters trying to storm a U.S. military base on Wednesday, killing three and wounding 20 as anger over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad flared anew.
The latest deaths in the town of Qalat brought the number of
Afghans who have been killed in similar protests this week to
10.
The trouble comes as NATO countries are preparing to expand a peacekeeping
mission in Afghanistan, and after a wave of bomb attacks on foreign and Afghan
forces and civilian targets blamed on Taliban and al Qaeda militants.
Afghanistan's top religious council called for an end to the
demonstrations, saying people would use the disturbances for purposes of
sabotage. The Ulema Council also condemned the cartoons, as has the Afghan
government.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Three more killed in cartoon protests
I am beginning to believe that these people are just looking for an excuse to riot and murder. I have never in all my life seen a group of people so enamoured with violence and death
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