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