oh shit. Afghan Mob Kills 10 United Nations Workers

[cali]

Afghan Mob Kills 10 United Nations Workers
Mustafa Najafizada/Associated Press

By ROD NORDLAND
Published: April 1, 2011

KABUL, Afghanistan — Protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by a fringe American pastor in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing ten foreign staff members and beheading two of the victims, according to an Afghan police spokesman. Five Afghans were also killed.

The attack began when hundreds of demonstrators, some of them armed, poured out of mosques after Friday Prayer and headed to the headquarters of the United Nations in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. They disarmed the guards and overran the compound, according to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, spokesman for Gen. Daoud Daoud, the Afghan National Police commander for northern Afghanistan.

A spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Kieran Dwyer, said the attack had occurred during a demonstration. “We can confirm there have been casualties, including U.N. personnel, but the situation on the ground remains very confusing,” he said. He added that Staffan de Mistura, the top United Nations official in Afghanistan, was en route to Mazar-i-Sharif.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/world/asia/02afghanistan.html?_r=1

[trumad]

1. Not good...

Que Sarah Palin and Peter King.

[H2O Man]

2. Ugly.

The world is spinning out of control.

[cali]

4. not to excuse the mob who did this

but that florida creep bears some responsibility.

[H2O Man]

5. Definitely.

No question.

[boston bean]

10. I 100% disagree. nt

[trumad]

17. And of course the MSM

[Bragi]

18. Despite the fact they gave him no coverage? /nt

[Rebubula]

19. No...no he does not

The only people that bear responsibility are the ones that murdered the UN people.

And...you DID give an excuse to the mob...


There is NOT ONE FUCKING THING that an individual does - 12,000 miles away - that can lend validation to a mob murder of innocent people. NOT ONE THING.


Bibles are burned from time to time in the ME. Does that mean that if a church in Ohio burns down a mosque and kills the people - we are cool with that - or even blame anyone other than the violent assholes that perpetrated the crime?

[aSpeckofDust]

3. Two sides of the same coin. Who pays the price for religious extremism? Normal people. n/t

[dkf]

6. Oh for goodness sakes that idiot Terry Jones burns the Koran now?

Was he upset his 15 minutes of fame were up?

[Bragi]

13. Except his 15 minutes were NOT up

Jones is a certifiable loony, but he knew that word of his Quran-burning would be spread in the Muslim world by those wanting to promote anti-Western sentiment.

This is now a big surprise to Westerners because our press deliberately self-censored itself and refused to cover his stupid "trial" of the Quran.

I thing we would have been better served if his stunt had been covered accurately but critically.

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[Distant Observer]

8. TYPO HERE?? They must be talking about the CRAZY Pro-Gaddafi LIBYANS, right???

Some how, I have not seen any evidence of the ruthless pro-Gaddafi supporters of
killing and beheading UN worker -- or even US reporters for that matter. Even though there
country is being "unjustly" destroyed.

[aSpeckofDust]

9. What the hell are you talking about? This happened in Afghanistan. n/t

[Distant Observer]

11. That's my point! So many tragic cruel conflicts on-going, and we are creating a NEW ONE

in a place where people were not killing us or the UN workers (and many other immigrants and visitors) in country.

But somehow we managed to justify dropping endless megatons of bombs and missiles on their country.

[SpiralHawk]

12. Waiting for the Bible burning to start...

This is what happens when the RepubliFundie Crusade Against Sanity pukes out it's ugliness. The Koran burning 'christian' (R) has blood on his hands Just like the Republicon TORTURE freaks.

There is no excuse for the mob murders of the UN workers. But there is an explanation: 'Christian' crusaders bombing and blasting the crap out of Afghan civilians year in and year out, and then rubbing their Cruader Crap in Afghan faces by defiling their 'Holy Book.' Bibles are going to go up in flames next...

And yet, Bibles and Korans are just dead trees smeared with ink...

[Bragi]

14. Who was last killed for burning a Bible? /nt

[SpiralHawk]

16. Google is your friend. You'll have to do your own research.

I am sure you will find plenty, Inquisitions being what they are...

But Google can't answer 'Who will be the next person killed for burning a Bible?"

[Taverner]

15. Sigh...religion is behind all of this

It's behind the muslim crazies who are doing their part to make Islam look like the crap that it is

It's also behind Jones, who's doing his part to make Christianity look like the shit it is

Fuck religion

Hitch was right, it poisons EVERYTHING

[shireen]

20. madness

Why couldn't those sick bastards respond by burning a Bible instead?

Koran-burning will not stop, revenge-killing for Koran-burning will not stop. This is full-scale mass insanity.

We just lost 6 soldiers there. For what?!!! We need to get out NOW and let those nuts stew in their own juices till they self-destruct.