AMERICA: MAKING FRIENDS WHEREVER WE GO For more photos, insha'Allah, visit: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=koran&n=100&c=news_photos&ei=UTF-8&datesort=1 AND also see http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=QUran&n=100&c=news_photos&ei=UTF-8&datesort=1
--- AFGHANISTAN The US-Afghan relationship is showing signs of strain after 15 people were killed in anti-US protests last week sparked by an erroneous report of copies of the Koran being desecrated by the US military(AFP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/photos_pl_afp/050520133235_502lc7lv_photo1 BANGLADESH Bangladeshi Islamic activists burn a U.S. flag during a protest in Dhaka May 20, 2005. Radical organisation Islamic Constitution Movement held the protest against the reported desecration of the Koran by U.S. soldiers in Guantanamo detention centre. REUTERS/Mohammad Shahidullah http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/ids_photos_wl/r3482614845.jpg BRITAIN Muslims take part in a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in central London, May 20, 2005. The demonstration on Friday followed similar protests by Muslims around the world in response to a May 9 report by Newsweek magazine - which has since been retracted - that the the Muslim holy book the Koran had been desecrated by U.S. Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/ids_photos_wl/r3622176513.jpg EGYPT An Islamic opponent of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, holds up a copy of the Quran as he shouts slogans against the president Friday, May 20, 2005, in a demonstration after midday prayers at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and largest Islamic movement, opposes changes to Egypt's presidential elections that it says won't result in a free and fair contest. Behind him is a banner carried by Mubarak supporters saying ' Cairo youths: Yes to reforms, no to chaos.' (AP Photo / Hasan Jamali) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/481/xhj10305201402 INDIA Indian Muslims shout anti-U.S. slogans as they ride horses over the U.S. flag during a demonstration in Bombay May 20, 2005. Hundreds of Muslims staged a protest in reaction to Newsweek magazine's report of the desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay prison, which was later retracted. Red Cross and U.S. officials said on Thursday the International Committee of the Red Cross told the Pentagon as early as 2002 detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison had reported U.S. personnel mishandled the Koran. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/ids_photos_wl/r85248814.jpg INDONESIA An Indonesian student runs over a burning tire during a demonstration near McDonald's restaurant in the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi, May 18, 2005. Hundreds of students on Wednesday denounced the desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, despite a retraction by Newsweek magazine of the report. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050518/ids_photos_wl/r949949356.jpg IRAN Angry Iranian protesters burn a U.S. flag as they shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Tehran May 20, 2005. Hundreds of Iranians denounced the desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay despite a retraction by Newsweek magazine of the report. REUTERS/Stringer http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/ids_photos_wl/r1369990854.jpg IRAQ A man paints the US flag on the ground in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf. Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr urged Muslims across Iraq to paint US and Israeli flags at mosque entrances for worshippers to walk on in protest at the alleged desecration of the Koran at the US detention camp in Guantanamo.(AFP/Qassem Zein) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050519/photos_wl_me_afp/050519102551_148uflnj_photo0 KASHMIR Kashmir University students write a placard for a campus protest in Srinagar May 20, 2005. Dozens of students from the university staged a protest in reaction to a Newsweek magazine report, which was later retracted, of U.S. interrogators desecrating the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Red Cross and U.S. officials said on Thursday the International Committee of the Red Cross told the Pentagon as early as 2002 detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison had reported U.S. Personnel mishandled the Koran. REUTERS/Danish Ismail http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/ids_photos_wl/r888342231.jpg MALAYSIA Malaysian Muslims protest near a placard that reads: 'Allah Damn America for desecrating the Koran. Discontinue diplomatic relations. Get out, forever' during a demonstration in Kuala Lumpur May 20, 2005. About 200 demonstrators, led by opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia, gathered to protest on Friday against a Newsweek magazine's report that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba desecrated the Koran. The magazine retracted the report this week, saying it could not substantiate the May 9 article contending that an internal military investigation had uncovered Koran abuse. Police later broke up the gathering. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/ids_photos_wl/r1803077056.jpg PAKISTAN Angry Pakistani protesters burn an effigy of the U.S. President George Bush to condemn alleged desecration of Islam's holy book Quran at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during a rally in Karachi, Pakistan, after Friday prayers on May 20, 2005. 'Condemned Bush' is written on effigy. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050520/481/kar10205201238 PALESTINE Muslim preacher Maher Haraz holds a copy of Islam's holy book, the Quran, during an anti-American demonstration in the West Bank town of Nablus Friday May 20, 2005. Hundreds of demonstrators, unmollified by a now-retracted magazine allegation that U.S. soldiers desecrated a copy of the Muslim holy book, streamed out of mosques Friday chanting 'Death to America, death to Israel'. 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