More than 1,000 try to break down gate of US military base in Afghan.

[donsu]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8702657/


'Die America!' chants Afghan mob at U.S. base
More than 1,000 try to break down gate; 50 Taliban reported slain in battle


More than 1,000 stone-throwing Afghans tried to break down an outer gate at the main U.S. base here Tuesday while demanding the release of eight detained villagers, and Afghan troops fired warning shots and used clubs to beat the mob back. U.S. troops also fired into the air.

It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties in the melee outside the base’s main gate as protesters chanted “Die America!” Black smoke billowed from burning tires. An Associated Press reporter was hit by a stone and an AP photographer was punched by a protester.

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Mob chases U.S. military vehicles
The violence in Bagram erupted when six U.S. military vehicles tried to enter the base. Demonstrators massed outside to protest the arrests threw stones at the convoy and soldiers in the vehicles fired into the air with handguns.

The convoy sped into the base and the mob chased after them, trying to push down a metal gate guarded by Afghan troops. Some soldiers beat the protesters with clubs and several fired assault rifles into the air as they shouted for the protesters to go home. Most dispersed.
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and there was also this:

One protester, Abdul Rahman, said that if the U.S. forces continued to raid people’s houses, Afghans would launch a “holy war against them as we did against the Soviets and Taliban.”


sigh

[lebkuchen]

1. Bush is swamped with plan readjustments at the moment

He's got to be hardpressed in deciding which of his debacles is in greater need of "adjusting."

[spanone]

2. MSNBC reported that bush* is in listening mode. Thank God he's not in nuking mode.

[lebkuchen]

5. Isn't it too late in his life to learn how to give a damn?

[htuttle]

3. Warm up that helicopter on the roof of the embassy!

Looks like they'll need it...

[Imagevision]

4. I don't think we'll be seeing much of Bush or Cheney as bad news increases

they'll both be like cowards and have their gofer's handle the rest of the Bush term...!

[Javaman]

6. I see that war is going swimmingly as well...nt

[DavidDvorkin]

7. They were trying to deliver flowers

The insults and rocks were an attempt to get attention.

[Disturbed]

8. Afghan Autopsy

Afghan Autopsy

America began its so-called war on terror with the intention of driving the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. Five years later, the Taliban is back, Osama bin Laden is still alive, and insurgent fighters cite the U.S. presence in the country as their main wellspring of rage. How did it come to this? Truthdig contributor Christian Parenti, just back from Afghanistan, reports.
by Christian Parenti

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1201-23.htm

What did Busholini say about Afghanistan?