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Afghans besiege US bases in Koran protests

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With the recent riots in Afghanistan, touched off by American soldiers burning a pile of Qur'ans, killing two GI's, at least 15 Afghanis, and injuring numerous others, the American occupying force and the Karsai government appear on the precipice of the absolute loss of all popular support. This imperial faux pas arrives shortly after photos surfaced of American troops urinating on Afghani corpses, and two recent accidental attacks upon Afghani schools, killing several young children. Pushed to the point of breaking, for three days all across Afghanistan, an enraged populace, from elderly men to school children, attempted to storm American military bases with mere stones as weapons.
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