Residents protest burning of Quran by US troops - Kabul

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Hundreds of people, protesting against the alleged burning of the Holy Quran by US troops at the Bagram Airbase in central Parwan province, blocked the Kabul-Jalalabad highway.

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in Politics, on the 21st of February 2012

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Protesters chant anti-US slogans in Kabul during a demonstration over the alleged desecration of the Quran by US forces at the Bagram airfield in central Parwan province. An investigation is now underway over circumstances surrounding the protest.

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Police officers stand guard to maintain security on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway where hundreds of protesters stage a demonstration in Kabul. An investigation is now underway over circumstances surrounding the protest.

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Hundreds of people, protesting against the alleged burning of the Holy Quran by US troops at the Bagram Airbase in central Parwan province, blocked the Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Tuesday.
The protestors -- carrying white flags and chanting slogans against Afghan and US governments, claimed the US soldiers had torched four copies of the Quran on Tuesday night.
In the Pul-i-Charkh area on the eastern outskirts of Kabul, the demonstrators closed the busy road at 8am. As a result, traffic came to a halt, with a large number of vehicles parked on both sides of the road.
Mohammad Nabi, 45, introducing himself as a worker on the military base, said: “Night shift colleagues informed us that US soldiers burnt four copies of the Qurans on the airfield.”
Two Afghan workers were shot dead when they tried to prevent the US soldiers from desecrating their holy book, Nabi claimed.