Saturday, April 2, 2011
Karzai’s Revenge on Obama: At Least Nine Dead in Second Day of Afghan Riots Over Koran Burning
I have a theory, payback is a bitch!
Hamid Karzai knew exactly what he was doing when fanned the fires by pubbicaly talking about Terry Jones’s burning of the Koran. He’s paying back Obama for wanting to replace him with another PM. Now the situation in Afghanistan is totally unsustainable and our troops are in greater danger from a people who really hates them more than the Talibon.
The Blaze reports anger over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a Florida church fueled a second day of deadly violence half a world away in Afghanistan, where demonstrators set cars and shops ablaze Saturday in a riot that killed nine protesters, officials said.
The church’s desecration of the Quran nearly two weeks ago has outraged millions of Muslims and others worldwide, fueling anti-American sentiment that is further straining ties between the Afghan government and the West.
The uproar even brought violence to the normally peaceful city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan on Friday, where a crowd of protesters — apparently infiltrated by insurgents — stormed a U.N. compound in an outpouring that left four Afghan protesters and seven foreign U.N. employees dead.
In an unrelated attack that nonetheless demonstrated the kind of violence plaguing Afghanistan nearly a decade after the U.S. invaded to oust the Taliban and hunt al-Qaida, two suicide attackers disguised as women in blue burqas blew themselves up and a third was gunned down at a NATO base on the outskirts of Kabul.
The Quran was burned March 20, but many Afghans only found out about it w
hen Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later. The burning took place at the Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, the same church where the Rev. Terry Jones had threatened to destroy a copy of the holy book last year but initially backed down.
On Saturday, hundreds of Afghans carryi
ng long sticks and holding copies of the Quran over their heads marched through Kandahar, the largest city in southern Afghanistan and the cradle of the insurgency. The crackle of gunfire could be heard throughout the city, which was blanketed by thick black smoke.
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Of course President Obama won’t react to this new development for another 9 days.
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