karenjonke member
Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Posts: 45 Location: U.S.A.
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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:44 pm Post subject: Two beheaded as Afghan protesters storm UN compound |
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Another example of the religion of the devil oh excuse me peace and tolerance.
I hate to suggest eye for an eye but if this is the response for incited by mainstream Islamic leaders (do not try to say it is only extremist there were to many people at the demonstration for it to be fringe elements of the religion) for some person burning a book (religious or not), then much like one of the other posts suggested I wonder how they would like it if every time they killed someone in one of these intimidation demonstrations then they should loose a mosque for each person killed.
On the other hand if the guards were allowed to actually use their weapons effectively to defend the site and the people inside the site. By aiming straight and level at the gates doors or what ever points the invaders are attacking rather than only firing warning shots over their heads, the problem of intimidation raids and murders would likely stop also.
copied from:
http://story.venezuelastar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/262fd6adf564928c/id/763748/cs/1/
Two beheaded as Afghan protesters storm UN compound
Venezuela Star
1st April, 2011
• Seven UN members among 12 killed
• Two of the victims were beheaded
• The attack took place in Mazar-i-Sharif in the north
Seven UN staff members are among a dozen people to have been killed Friday in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Another eighty three people were wounded in the attack, including the chief of the UNAMA''s office in Mazar-i-Sharif.
More than 1,000 protesters took to the streets after Friday's prayers to vent their anger over the burning of a Quran by a U.S. pastor.
Around 4:30pm a number of protesters overran the UN compound, toppled a guard tower and torched the compound. The twelve killed included United Nations staff members and Nepali guards, along with five protesters. Two of those killed were beheaded according to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for the northern region.
The UN says it is not in a position to say what countries those killed had come from. A media report in the country said slain UN personnel were from Norway, Romania, and Sweden.
Police fired warning shots above the crowd but it had no effect.
Alain Le Roy, the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told reporters the demonstration was one of several held across Afghanistan Friday in protest at last month''s burning of a Quran by a Christian group based in the state of Florida.
He said many of the demonstrators were armed and, while the security guards tried their best, the crowd was so large that they were soon outnumbered.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon described the attack as “outrageous and cowardly” and said it “cannot be justified under any circumstances.”
A Reuters correspondent reported long-standing anger over civilian casualties, heightened by the Quran burning, and the recent publication of gruesome photographs of the body of an unarmed Afghan teenager killed by U.S. soldiers, sparked the protests.
Mr. Ban said he was sending his Chef de Cabinet Vijay Nambiar and Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security Gregory Starr to Afghanistan to review the security situation. |
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