Tuesday, February 07, 2006

More Cartoon-related Violence, Holocaust Denial, and another possible Death

From Fox News:
Afghanistan — Norwegian troops opened fire on protesters who attacked a NATO base Tuesday in the second straight day of violent demonstrations in Afghanistan over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, Afghan officials said.
Meanwhile in Iran, from the same article:
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the West's publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over the victory of the militant Hamas group in the Palestinian elections last month. "The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities," Khamenei said.
The article goes on to report differing accounts of what was fired at the Afghan demonstrators. According to an Afghan source one of the demonstrators was killed.

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