Let's pay a few billion more along with pathetic apologies and investigations promised by US 'officials.'
2/22/12, "Afghan Koran burning at Bagram sparks fresh protests," BBC
"Protesters in Kabul shouted, "Death to America!" and threw stones at Camp Phoenix, the main US base in the city."...
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How about just leaving?
7/25/11, "U.S. trucking funds end up in Taliban hands," Reuters ($6 billion citation 3rd parag.)
- $6 billion a month is diverted from US taxpayers to a recognized mafia run country. Karzai incited violent riots in 2011 over a reported Koran burning:
"The burning initially passed relatively unnoticed in Afghanistan, but after criticism from President Hamid Karzai, and calls for justice during Friday sermons, thousands poured into the streets in several cities to denounce Jones.
Afghan and UN officials said insurgents had incited violence at peaceful protests. Marches in Kabul, the western city of Herat and northern Tahar province ended without unrest."...
- Some were beaten and stoned to death, one's throat was slit:
"In Kandahar, one of the policemen killed and several civilians died from gunshot wounds, said Abdul Qayum Pukhla, the senior health official for the province. The rest of the dead had been beaten and stoned he added....
The throat of one of slain foreigners had been slit, the U.N. said."...
- Shopkeeper Rahim Mohammad said,
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2/22, BBC notes illiterate people are quick to anger:
"After previous incidents, many Afghans find it hard to understand how US forces could have allowed the Koran to have been burned, says the BBC's Andrew North, in Kabul.
Afghanistan is a very religious country, he adds, but also one where many people are illiterate and susceptible to attempts to whip up anger."...
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7/25/11, "Cash from part of a $2.16 billion U.S. transportation contract in Afghanistan has ended up in the hands of Taliban insurgents, the Pentagon said on Monday."...
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