|
Traffic Accident Prompts Kabul protest
I would note that we had a story some days ago that noted that some of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's pet imams were calling for jihad in Kabul. While some of the protesters no doubt showed up for other reasons, I'd wager that if you look at the overlap between who attends those mosques and who showed up to shout "Death to the Great Satan" you'd see a fair correlation between the two.Violent anti-foreigner protests raged across the capital yesterday after a U.S. military truck crashed into traffic, touching off the worst rioting since the Taliban's ouster in 2001. At least eight persons died and 107 were injured before Kabul's streets calmed. Chanting "Death to America," rioters stoned the U.S. convoy involved in the accident, then headed to the center of town, ransacking offices of international aid groups and searching for foreigners in a display of rising resentment over civilian deaths in the war against insurgents. Gunfire, at times intense, rang out across Kabul as hundreds of young men looted shops and set fire to police cars and station houses. Some people said U.S. and Afghan troops fired on the crowds. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-05-30 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=154267 |