From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 10:12:01 EST
...AND ANGRY MOB ATTACKS NATO FORCES
Conflicting reports have emerged from international news agencies concerning a clash between angry demonstrators and Afghan and international troops outside a base in Maymana, the capital of Faryab Province, on 7 February. Governor Mohammad Latif of the northern province was quoted as saying that Norwegian troops attached to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) fired on hundreds of protesters outside their base in Maymana. Mohammad Latif said the incident occurred after demonstrators shot at the soldiers and threw grenades. He said one of the demonstrators was killed and two others were wounded. A subsequent dpa report said that four people were killed "when Afghan police opened fire after shots were fired from the crowd." An ISAF spokeswoman, Squadron Leader Annie Gibson-Sexton, was quoted as saying that international troops used tear gas against the protesters but she could not confirm that shots had been fired. AT
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