Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

These are not our protesters either.


Meanwhile, puppet police and U.S. troops opened fire in the eastern Afghan city Jalalabad to control hundreds of students rioting over alleged desecration of Qur’an at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, killing two protesters and injuring more than 50, officials said.

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Protest against U.S. Qur’an abuse


Thousands of Afghan students took to the streets on Tuesday, chanting “Death to America”, protesting against a report that U.S. interrogators in Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Qur’an.



Newsweek magazine reported in a recent edition that investigators studying abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have found that U.S. interrogators “had placed copies of Qur’an on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet”.



“American should apologize for this,” said one student at the protest in Jalalabad city, about 130 km (80 miles) east of the Afghan capital, Kabul.



Some protesters were holding an effigy of the American President George W. Bush while shouting “Death to Bush”.



Demonstrators blocked the main road to Kabul, however, no serious clashes with the pro-American puppet police were reported, witnesses said.



Meanwhile, puppet police and U.S. troops opened fire in the eastern Afghan city Jalalabad to control hundreds of students rioting over alleged desecration of Qur’an at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, killing two protesters and injuring more than 50, officials said.



Also Pakistani officials have lately expressed their outrage and demanded an apology from the U.S. and launching an inquiry into the Newsweek report.



They also asked the U.S. government to punish those responsible.



Currently, the U.S. has about 18,300 occupation forces in Afghanistan, fighting against Mujahideen.



A high-level U.S. military investigation into accusations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay has been launched, but hasn’t been completed yet.



More than 500 detainees, mostly Arabs, are currently held by the U.S. at Guantanamo, part of it’s claimed “war on terrorism”.

Agencies

2005-05-11 18:44:46
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