En ting er selve nyheten, like interessant er hvordan den ble spredt: opptøyene i Jalalabad idag skyldes en artikkel i Newsweek om manglende respekt for Koranen på Guantanamo!

It was the second day of demonstrations by students in Jalalabad who were angered at a report in Newsweek magazine that United States interrogators at the Guantánamo Bay detention center had desecrated the Holy Koran by placing it on toilets, and even in one case, flushing a Koran down the toilet. The students carried banners condemning the action, chanted anti-American slogans and burned effigies of President Bush. The protest passed peacefully Tuesday, but violence erupted today with hundreds of stone-throwing and stick-wielding demonstrators spreading across town. They broke into compounds, smashed cars and set fire to offices of the government and of foreign organizations.

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