:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 5.11.2005 ::
:: "Four killed, scores wounded at anti-US Afghan riot" ::
From Globe and Mail, Canada
Kabul — Police opened fire in an eastern Afghan city to control hundreds of students rioting over the alleged desecration of Islam's holy book by U.S. forces at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Four people were killed and 71 wounded, officials said.
Shouting “Death to America,” demonstrators smashed car and shop windows Wednesday and stoned a passing convoy of U.S. soldiers in the city of Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border, in the biggest outpouring of anti-U.S. sentiment since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
The U.S. troops fired into the air before quickly leaving the area, provincial intelligence chief Sardar Shah told the Associated Press.
Four people were killed and 71 injured, including seven police officers, according to the Interior Ministry. It did not identify the victims any further or say how they were hurt.
The demonstrations began Tuesday, when protesters burned an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush over a report in Newsweek magazine that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay placed Korans on toilets to rattle suspects, and in at least one case “flushed a holy book down the toilet.”
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posted by me
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