From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 12:47:12 EST
PROTESTS OVER CARICATURES OF PROPHET TURN VIOLENT IN AFGHANISTAN...
Continuing protests throughout Afghanistan against the publication by a Danish newspaper and other media of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad have claimed four lives in Afghanistan and left another 20 people injured, international news agencies reported on 6 February (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 6 February 2006). Two people were killed when protesters who had gathered in front of the main U.S. air base in country in Bagram, north of Kabul, tried to storm the gates of the complex and were fired on by Afghan security troops, AP reported on 6 February. Another man was killed in Mehtarlam, the provincial capital of the eastern Laghman Province, when security forces fired on protesters who had turned violent and gone on a rampage, Pajhwak Afghan News reported on 6 February. A fourth person was killed in Nangarhar Province, south of Laghman. Violent protests also took place in several other Afghan cities, including Kabul, in which injuries and property damage were reported but no one was killed. AT
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