US Soldier Killed in Southern Afghanistan, Thousands of Afghanis Protest NATO Occupation in Kabul, September 16, 2010

US Soldier Killed in Southern Afghanistan, Thousands of Afghanis Protest NATO Occupation in Kabul

September 16, 2010

Service member killed in Afghanistan

By the CNN Wire Staff September 16, 2010 7:46 a.m. EDT

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --

An international service member was killed Thursday in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan.

No other information, including the service member's nationality, was immediately available from NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

Afghan police walk towards protesters

Afghan police walk towards protesters in Kabul September 15, 2010. Police fired into the air to disperse thousands of angry anti-American protesters in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, witnesses and police said, with at least two people suffering apparent gunshot wounds.

REUTERS/Ahmad Masood … Read more »

One killed during anti-US protest in Afghanistan

Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Daily Times, Pakistan, Reuters

KABUL:

One person was killed and at least five others wounded as police fired into the air to disperse thousands of anti-American protesters in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.

Demonstrators chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Karzai”, the latter referring to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in the biggest protests since unrest erupted last week over plans by an American pastor to burn copies of the holy Quran. “There are more than 10,000 of the demonstrators and some of them are waving the Taliban flag,” said police officer Mohammad Usman.

A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the group was aware of the protests but had no role in them. “People may have raised the Taliban flags to show their sentiment and sympathy for the Taliban,” Mujahid told Reuters from an undisclosed location. At the Pul-e-Kandahari, or Kandahar Bridge in Kabul, police were ordered to advance towards one group of hundreds of protesters who were throwing stones and shouting “Death to American slaves” at police.

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.