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ISAF soldier, two Afghans killed in anti-US protest
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 22 - 05 - 2008


A NATO soldier and two Afghan citizens were killed
in western Afghanistan when people took to the streets to protest a
US soldier in Iraq using the Koran for target practice, police said
Thursday, according to dpa.
More than 1,000 protesters tried to storm a NATO-led Lithuanian
military base in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province, on
Thursday afternoon, chanting anti-US and anti-West slogans, Shah
Jahan Noori, provincial police chief, said.
Major Martin O'Donnell, NATO-led International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) spokesman in Kabul, confirmed that one of their soldiers
was killed and another was wounded.
Both soldiers received gunshot wounds, O'Donnell said, but did not
know if the protesters were armed or "some insurgents opened fire" on
the ISAF soldiers.
"After police stopped the people from entering the base, the
protesters threw stones and some of them opened fire on police,
wounding 10 policemen," Noori said.
Two people were killed and six other protesters were wounded when
police returned fire and tried to push back the "angry mob who wanted
to attack UN and other government buildings in the city too."
Some "Taliban sympathizers and those who were provoked by the
Taliban" were among the protesters, Noori said, adding, "I am sure
the protest was provoked by the Taliban elements."
A local official, who did not want to be named, said that three
protesters were killed and more a dozen were wounded. The official
said that the protesters also burned two oil tankers destined for
NATO soldiers in the city.
The protesters also burned US flags, demanding that US forces to
leave Afghanistan.
US President George W Bush has apologized to Iraqi Prime Minister
Nuri al-Maliki after a US soldier was punished for using the Koran
for target practice, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told
reporters on Tuesday.
Bush regretted the desecration of Islam's holy book and informed
the Iraqi leader that that the soldier had been reprimanded and
removed from Iraq, Perino said.
Similar demonstrations also took place in Afghanistan's northern
Badakhshan province on Thursday, witnesses said.
The protesters in Faizabad, the provincial capital, asked the
Afghan government to end its political relations with the US and to
expel US soldiers from Afghanistan, Ahmad Bari, one of the organizers
of the demonstration said.
The demonstration ended without any violence.
Hundreds of students in the northern province of Kunduz took to
streets on Wednesday and chanted anti-US slogans, while in Kabul
dozens of Afghan members of parliament walked out of the lower house
of parliament on Tuesday in protest.
Around 30,000 US forces are part of some 70,000 NATO-led multi-
national ISAF forces and anti terrorism coalition troops in the
country. The US forces were deployed to Afghanistan following the
ouster of Taliban regime in late 2001.


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