Afghans ****** UN Officials in Kabul

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Ten UN staff in Afghanistan ******** in protest against U.S. pastor who burnt Koran

Hope these pastors are happy now, show all this bravado in the safety of the US and westerners working hard in volatile regions are the ones that suffer. Can't we airlift Wayne Sapp and Terry Jones to Afghanistan and let them burn the Koran there instead of creating a media circus and doing it in the safety of the States. Also further proof the locals don't want us there, we should get out of there and let them lead the barbaric life they seem to love so dearly.

Two UN staff ******** and eight others ******** in protest against U.S. pastor who burnt Koran

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Anger: Protests broke out across Afghanistan after reports of Koran burnings in an American church


Ten United Nations staff were ******** - two by ********* - after extremists stormed their compound in northern Afghanistan today.

Protesters broke into UN offices in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif after a demonstration against Koran burnings in America turned violent.

A small breakaway group attacked the UN compound, throwing stones and climbing on blast barriers to try to gain entry. They seized weapons from guards and opened fire before storming the site.

An Afghan police source, who asked not to be named, said the chief of the mission in the city was wounded but survived.

Among those ******** were Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish and Nepalese nationals. Two were ***********, it is understood.

A UN spokesman confirmed that workers had been ****** at the mission, but he said the situation on the ground was still confusing and it was difficult to 'ascertain facts'.

Staffan De Mistura, the top UN representative in Afghanistan, was heading to Mazar-i-Sharif to handle the matter personally, he added.

Over a thousand demonstrators had flooded into the streets of the normally peaceful city after Friday prayers, where they heard reports about the Koran burnings in America last month.

On 21 March, pastor Wayne Sapp set fire to a copy of the Muslim holy book at a church in Florida.

He was accompanied by Terry Jones, another pastor who hit the headlines last year after threatening to burn copies of the book on the anniversary of the 9/11 ****** attacks.

Thousands of demonstrators also marched through the western city of Herat and around 200 in Kabul, but both protests remained peaceful.

Just last week, Afghan president Hamid Karzai had announced Mazar-i-Sharif would be one of the first parts of the war torn country Afghan security would take from Nato ******.



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