Muslims burn effigy of Obama in Afghanistan; President Karzai demands pastor
Terry Jones be punished

BY Katie Nelson <http://www.nydailynews.com/authors/Katie%20Nelson>  
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 

Sunday, April 3rd 2011, 11:54 AM

Afghan protestors burn an effigy of President Obama during a demonstration
in Jalalabad.

Gul/AP

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in Jalalabad. 

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Enraged demonstrators took to the streets of Afghanistan
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Afghanistan>  for a third day Sunday,
killing two and injuring dozens of others after a fundamentalist Florida
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Florida>  pastor burned the Koran.

President Hamid Karzai <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Hamid+Karzai>
repeated his call to the White House
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/The+White+House> , Senate and United
Nations <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+Nations>  to bring to
justice Terry Jones <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Terry+Jones> , the
Gainsville, Fla. pastor who organized a mock "trial" that resulted in the
burning of Islam's holy book on Friday, officials said.

Jones is the same inflammatory religious leader who threatened to burn a
Koran last year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, triggering
worldwide outrage.

Protests have erupted throughout Afghanistan since Jones' most recent stunt.
At least 22 people in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Mazar-e+Sharif>  were killed in the
unrest, including seven UN staff members.

The UN, however, vowed that the attack - the worst in Afghanistan since the
Taliban <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/The+Taliban>  were toppled in
2001 - would not derail its work in the war-torn nation.

"This should not deter the UN presence, activities, in this country in this
delicate and particularly crucial period," special representative Staffan de
Mistura <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Staffan+De+Mistura>  said.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/04/04/alg_afghan2.jpg
Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third
day with a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday. (Gul/AP)

The remaining UN foreign staff would be temporarily relocated to Kabul
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kabul> , he said.

Elsewhere, an officer was killed and 20 civilians were injured in an
explosion that ripped through crowds of protesters in the southern city of
Kandahar <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kandahar> .

"The protesters set ablaze a traffic police booth. Inside there was a gas
bottle which exploded," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Zemarai+Bashary>  told AFP, calling it
"accidental."

About 500 university students also protested in the eastern city of
Jalalabad <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jalalabad> . They blocked a key
road for several hours, shouting for U.S.
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+States>  troops to leave, burning
an effigy of President Barack Obama
<http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Barack+Obama>  and stomping on a drawing
of a U.S. flag.

More than 1,000 people also set tires ablaze to block another highway in
eastern Parwan province <http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Parwan+Province>
for about an hour, said provincial police chief Sher Ahmad Maladani.

 



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