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Afghanistan
Four more cartoon deaders
2006-02-09
Appeals for calm in the furore over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI peace be upon him) went unheeded Wednesday as police shot dead four more protestors during rioting in Afghanistan, bringing the worldwide death toll to 13. Eleven demonstrators have been killed since Friday in Afghanistan, and one each in Somalia and Lebanon.

About 400 Afghan protestors hurled stones as they tried to storm the police headquarters in Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, before moving to a US military base where they torched four fuel tankers, witnesses and an army commander said. A provincial official said police had opened fire to control the crowd while witnesses said coalition troops had fired into the air.
Posted by:Fred

#8  I'd claim to be Zio-American.
Posted by: 6   2006-02-09 12:13  

#7  Ah, when i go to buy a 6 pack of Tuborg, I hope I get asked that question. Really I do.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2006-02-09 11:17  

#6  But, Charles, they were 13 Muslims...that's a whole 'nother ballgame!
Posted by: BA   2006-02-09 11:14  

#5  bringing the worldwide death toll to 13

OMG, 13 people died in the world! This is front-page news!
Posted by: Charles   2006-02-09 09:47  

#4  "Are you Danish?"
"No sir, I don't have the honor of claiming descent from that illustrious race."
Posted by: Flerert Whese8274   2006-02-09 06:13  

#3  When his were still living in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan under Ottoman rule?
Posted by: .com   2006-02-09 02:24  

#2  Snicker.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-02-09 02:19  

#1  I bought a bottle of Aalborg aquavit this afternoon in the spirit of "buy Danish". The Palestinian clerk who sold it to me asked very coldly if I were Danish and got even colder when I told him that, no, my family had been Americans for almost 300 years.
Posted by: RWV   2006-02-09 00:28  

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