NUK NDALEN PROSTETAT ANTI-AMERIKANE NE AFGANISTAN KU TE PAKTEN 9 PERSONA KANE HUMBUR JETEN PAS PERDHOSJES SE KURANIT NGA AMERIKANET NE BURGUN E GUANTANAMOS. SHBA KANE BERE THIRRJE PER QETESI, NDERSA JANE DUKE HETUAR PER NGJARJEN. KJO ESHTE DHE PROTESTA ME E FUQISHME KUNDER AMERIKES QE PAS RREZIMIT TE TALEBANEVE NE AFGANISTAN.
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Massive anti-U.S. demonstrations raged across the Muslim world from Gaza to Indonesia on Friday, protesting against the U.S soldiers desecration of Quran at Guantanamo Bay.
A report recently published at The Newsweek magazine showed that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had put copies of the Quran on toilets, in at least one case flushing it down.
In Afghanistan, nine people were killed in Friday protests, bringing to 16 the number of Afghans killed over the past three days in the country's worst anti-American demonstrations since the fall of Taliban regime.
More anti-U.S. protests took place in Pakistan, which called on the U.S. to launch an immediate investigation into The Newsweek magazine report.
In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, hundreds of people held a peaceful protest.
Also in Gaza, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a protest organized by Hamas resistance movement.
Also hundreds Palestinians held protests in the West Bank city of Hebron.
"The Holy Quran was defiled by the dirtiest of hands, by American hands," shouted one of the protesters at the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza Strip.
According to reporters present at the scene, some protesters burned U.S. and Israeli flags.
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Muslim nations to resist calls for violence, saying that the U.S. authorities are investigating the Quran "desecration" report.
Analysts say that the recent scandal of U.S. soldiers abusing the Holy Quran hurts the United States' reputation, already damaged with the release of disgracing photographs a year ago, showing U.S. military personnel abusing and torturing Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib jail.
Indonesia said those responsible must receive a "deserved punishment" for their "immoral action."
And Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, said it was following the issue with "deep indignation."
"Demonstrations serve no purpose, we should do something practical. I am ready to blow myself up for the sake of my religion to embrace martyrdom," said Mohamed Ghafoor, 18, a student protesting, Pakistan.
In its report released on May 9, The Newsweek quoted sources as saying that investigators probing abuse cases at Guantanamo found that interrogators "had placed copies of the Quran on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet."
Currently, about 500 prisoners, mostly captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan, are held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay.
Analysts say that this was the worst anti-U.S. protests in Afghanistan since Americans invaded the country.
During weekly Friday prayers in Afghanistan, Islamic clerics told worshipers that protests over the desecration of Quran were justified.
At least 100 people were wounded in Afghanistan protests that were held over the past three days.
Agencies
2005-05-14 00:05:21
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