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| Afghans Protest U.S. Killing Of Afghan Soldiers |
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| a_Silver_Rose |
| 05/25/03 at 02:41:21 |
| [slm] Afghans Protest U.S. Killing Of Afghan Soldiers “ Death to America … Death to Karzai … Death to Bush," shouted the protestors KABUL, May 24 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Some 200 people took to the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul Saturday, May 24, to protest the U.S. embassy guards killing of Afghan soldiers last week and called for putting them on trial or handing them over to Afghan police. "We want to judge the killers of the martyrs", “Death to America", "Death to Karzai" and "Death to Bush," read some of the banners raised by the demonstrators, most of them teenage boys and young men. They punched ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) vehicles and smashed the windscreen of a jeep whose driver was wearing a turban, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. At least two ISAF soldiers were bleeding from head and hand wounds after their vehicle was pelted by stone-throwing demonstrators near the close to the U.S. embassy. One of the ISAF vehicles escaped with broken windows while another collided with a taxi and was stoned before it escaped too. A soldier inside was bleeding from a head wound while another had a bloody hand. ISAF spokesmen were not immediately able to provide details. Afghan security men dressed in plain clothes and carrying walkie-talkies followed the demonstration, while Turkish and Italian ISAF troops patrolled past the demonstrators in armored cars. U.S. troops guarding the compound observed from watchtowers and through the main gate but did not react. Dozens of Afghan police in vans later blocked the road past the American embassy. The heavily fortified embassy compound, guarded by soldiers in watchtowers and protected by piles of sandbags, lies opposite to several Afghan military buildings and a vast enclosed military compound. U.S. Special Forces in a Humvee vehicle with a mounted machine gun blocked the road to the main U.N. compound. After marching through central Kabul the demonstrators gathered outside one of the entrances to the presidential palace where they were blocked by around 50 armed Afghan soldiers. ISAF soldiers disperse protesters outside U.S. Embassy in Kabul The protestors slammed the Afghan president’s reported contacts with deposed Taliban regime members, insecurity and deteriorated economic situation, al-Jazeera reported. “But there are clear signals that the Afghan authorities allowed this spontaneous demonstration to go on,” added the channel’s correspondent. U.S. soldiers on Wednesday, May 21, shot dead four Afghan soldiers and injured two others in front of the U.S. embassy after mistakenly thinking they were preparing to attack them amid new fears of potential terrorist attacks around the world. The Afghans did not return fire and said the incident was under investigation. After the shooting, tensions on the streets were high as local intelligence officers and soldiers moved to disperse the crowd. The U.S. forces did only apologized for the shooting which they said was only out of misunderstanding, ignoring calls for opening investigations. The protests came two weeks after hundreds of students of the military university and schools in Kabul demonstrated for days in front of the Presidential palace in Kabul against Karzai and U.S. policies in Afghanistan. |
| Re: Afghans Protest U.S. Killing Of Afghan Soldier |
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| Yasmeena |
| 05/26/03 at 01:33:20 |
| No wonder US citizens are in trouble! Our government pulls stunts like this and then ignores proper actions like investigating the incidents and pulling the PARANOID little boys in grown up uniforms out of active service and giving them over for trials IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THE OFFENSE HAPPENED!!!! Then here at home they use propaganda to blame others for our "heightened security measures" that they CLAIM is to protect the citizenry. They need to tell the truth and say that they are protecting our government officials not us ordinary citizens. All this is done to remove more of our freedoms!! |
| 05/26/03 at 01:34:10 |
| Yasmeena |
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