Afghan violence linked to Hizbut Tehrir (students behind protests)

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GE14Ag01.html

> May 14, 2005
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> Afghan violence linked to Hizbut Tehrir
> By B Raman
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> "This is the biggest protest campaign in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban regime . This is bloody, widespread and countrywide.This also shows that they are fed up with the United States and they just needed a spark to vent their feelings."
> - Rahimullah Yusufzai, a Pakistani journalist who is considered an authority on the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, on May 12.
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> Yusufzai was talking about the violent anti-US and anti-Hamid Karzai demonstrations sweeping across Afghanistan since May 10, in protest against the alleged desecration of the Holy Koran by US guards at the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba, where about 500 Afghans, Pakistanis and other Muslims have been detained by the US authorities without trial and without giving them any right of access to human-rights organizations.
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> The demonstrations, often culminating in violence, which started at Jalalabad near the Pakistan border, have since spread to the northern provinces of Parwan, Kapisa and Takhar, Laghman in the east, Logar and Khost in the southeast and the southern province of Kandahar. It also spread to Kabul itself on May 12. According to the latest reports, 10 out of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan have been affected by the demonstrations and the resulting violence. The anger of the demonstrators has been directed not only against the US and President Karzai of Afghanistan, but also against Pakistan and the United Nations and Western non-governmental organizations functioning from Afghanistan. Their offices have been attacked, causing considerable property damage everywhere.
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> Though no fatalities have been inflicted on the security forces by the demonstrators, seven civilians have so far been killed and over 80 injured as a result of firing by Afghan and American security forces to disperse the demonstrators. Reports of the demonstrations received from several towns indicate the following common features:

> # The students spearheaded the demonstrations, in which a large number of educated people participated.

[Karenina]

1. Kick!

:kick:

[leveymg]

2. Protest predated Quran story, deaths were all shot by US & gov't forces

And, then, we're fed this ooze that Newsweek is all at fault. Newsweek drinks the Kool Aid, along with the rest of the MSM, but an Official Secrets Act is going to be passed anyway. Just in time for an attack on Iran and World War III.

The * Administration is going to be remembered (if anyone's still alive to recall) for the most skillfully propaganda in history. That they maintain the illusion of a free press is truly breathtaking.

:bounce: