What a mess.
Anti-American Protests Spread through Islamic World
By Carlotta Gall
The New York Times
Saturday 14 May 2005
Kabul, Afghanistan - Thousands of Muslims, from Gaza to Pakistan to Indonesia, emerged from prayer services on Friday to join Afghans in rapidly spreading protests over the reported desecration of a Koran by American interrogators at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In Afghanistan, at least 8 people were killed and more than 40 injured in clashes, bringing the death toll over four days of anti-American rioting to at least 16, with more than 100 injured. For the first time a policeman was killed in the violence.
Three protesters were killed and 23 people wounded as the police grappled with a crowd of more than 1,500 in Baharak, in far northeastern Badakhstan, the police chief of the province, Gen. Shah Jehan Nuri, said in a telephone interview. Ten police officers and members of the border police, who are based in the town, were among the injured, he said.
In three Pakistan cities, Peshawar, Quetta and Multan, hundreds of protesters led largely by religious parties burned American flags and chanted anti-American slogans after Friday Prayer. The protests were peaceful, though, thanks in large part to the large numbers of police officers deployed outside mosques and official buildings.
Hundreds of people gathered peacefully outside a mosque in Jakarta on Friday while a statement was read condemning the United States for the reported abuses. In Gaza, about 1,500 members of the radical Islamic group Hamas marched through the Jabaliya refugee camp as outrage spread over the reports, including a brief item in Newsweek, that interrogators at Guantánamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet in an effort to upset detainees.
Protesters carrying the green banners of Islam and Hamas shouted, "Protect our holy book!" Some burned American and Israeli flags. Anti-American protests are rare among militant Palestinians, who decry American support for Israel but emphasize that their struggle is with Israel, not the United States.
The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said Friday that officials at the Department of Defense were investigating reports of the desecration, and that "they take such allegations very seriously," but he did not indicate when the investigation would be completed, Reuters reported. "We will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran," he added.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405A.shtml
---Ummm Scotty, its too damn late. Even if the act NEVER occurred you WILL NOT be able to contain this. Unless ofcourse, you announce our abrupt WITHDRAWL.... To hell with bush and to hell with bushs oil. GET OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OUT OF THERE NOW.!!!---
By Carlotta Gall
The New York Times
Saturday 14 May 2005
Kabul, Afghanistan - Thousands of Muslims, from Gaza to Pakistan to Indonesia, emerged from prayer services on Friday to join Afghans in rapidly spreading protests over the reported desecration of a Koran by American interrogators at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In Afghanistan, at least 8 people were killed and more than 40 injured in clashes, bringing the death toll over four days of anti-American rioting to at least 16, with more than 100 injured. For the first time a policeman was killed in the violence.
Three protesters were killed and 23 people wounded as the police grappled with a crowd of more than 1,500 in Baharak, in far northeastern Badakhstan, the police chief of the province, Gen. Shah Jehan Nuri, said in a telephone interview. Ten police officers and members of the border police, who are based in the town, were among the injured, he said.
In three Pakistan cities, Peshawar, Quetta and Multan, hundreds of protesters led largely by religious parties burned American flags and chanted anti-American slogans after Friday Prayer. The protests were peaceful, though, thanks in large part to the large numbers of police officers deployed outside mosques and official buildings.
Hundreds of people gathered peacefully outside a mosque in Jakarta on Friday while a statement was read condemning the United States for the reported abuses. In Gaza, about 1,500 members of the radical Islamic group Hamas marched through the Jabaliya refugee camp as outrage spread over the reports, including a brief item in Newsweek, that interrogators at Guantánamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet in an effort to upset detainees.
Protesters carrying the green banners of Islam and Hamas shouted, "Protect our holy book!" Some burned American and Israeli flags. Anti-American protests are rare among militant Palestinians, who decry American support for Israel but emphasize that their struggle is with Israel, not the United States.
The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said Friday that officials at the Department of Defense were investigating reports of the desecration, and that "they take such allegations very seriously," but he did not indicate when the investigation would be completed, Reuters reported. "We will not tolerate any disrespect for the holy Koran," he added.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051405A.shtml
---Ummm Scotty, its too damn late. Even if the act NEVER occurred you WILL NOT be able to contain this. Unless ofcourse, you announce our abrupt WITHDRAWL.... To hell with bush and to hell with bushs oil. GET OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OUT OF THERE NOW.!!!---
posted by Christy at 1:08 PM
2 Comments:
on the matter of the last Iraqi war being for oil
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-05-16T051856Z_01_MOL569903_RTRUKOC_0_IRAQ-UN-USA.xml
and
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=322QHX2FCANHZQFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/05/14/wsadd14.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/14/ixportaltop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=32624
and
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140017,00.html
and especially
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Iraq/UN-knew-of-Saddams-oilforfood-thefts-BBC/2004/11/21/1100972255082.html
a bit of food for thought!
I never once listened to the people screaming 'No blood for oil'
I dont think I WANTED to listen. Until about 2 days after we invaded Iraq. When I realized they were securing oil fields and offices, it REALLY sunk in. When one of the most important museums in human history was looted I was enraged. I remember seriously being so angry I was shaking.
Its been an odd journey for me. I will teach my children it was really about the oil and the money and power that come with it. One day perhaps my kids will track down those artifacts. I really hope someone does.
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