The hearts and the minds; we'll be out by December.
(December 2020 that is)
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Afghans riot after US crash, shootings
From: Agence France-Presse By Shah Marai and Waheedullah Massoud in Kabul
May 30, 2006
AT least 14 people were killed as rioters chanting "Death to America" tore through the Afghan capital overnight.
They torched cars and buildings after US troops opened fire following a deadly traffic accident involving a US military vehicle.
Gunshots could be heard near Kabul's diplomatic quarter as restaurants, shops, cars and dozens of police posts were set ablaze in the worst violence to hit the capital since the Taliban regime fell in late 2001.
The United Nations and US embassy ordered their personnel into bunkers and safe zones.
Demonstrations erupted across the tense city before Afghan security forces were eventually able to establish order.
The Government imposed a six-hour curfew in a bid to restore calm.
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It was too early to tell how many people had been killed in the violence, Kabul police criminal investigation department director Abdul Jamil Kohistani said.
But the six main hospitals in the city had received 14 dead bodies and more than 140 wounded, most with gun shot wounds, according to an AFP tally.
The trouble began when a US military truck appeared to lose control and smashed into about a dozen cars at a busy intersection in the north of the city.
The US-led coalition said the accident, which may have been caused by faulty brakes, killed one person and injured several. President Hamid Karzai's office said five people were killed.
People angered by the incident started pelting military vehicles with stones.
US troops then opened fire and killed at least four people, an AFP photographer at the scene said. He said two men were shot dead next to him, and two other bodies were found after the burst of gunfire.
Several people were wounded.
The coalition said there were "indications that at least one coalition military vehicle fired warning shots over the crowd".
It said it regretted the incident and was investigating.
The shooting set off more fury as protesters held aloft one of the bodies and chanted: "Death to America, Death to Karzai."
A protestor named Ahmadullah referred to US troops, saying: "These traitors killed at least 10 people. Death to them."
Another said: "These cowards opened fire into the crowd and killed them like sheep. First they drove into the people's cars, destroyed them and then fired onto the people who were only throwing stones at them."
The coalition troops left the scene as Afghan police arrived. The growing mob turned on police, setting alight a police post and several police vehicles, the photographer said. Afghan police also opened fire.
Crowds later marched through the capital. One group of about 1000 people pushed through the city centre to a diplomatic quarter, and smaller mobs of a couple of hundred men rioted elsewhere.
Some of the marchers were carrying knives. One man said: "Where are the Americans?"
A mob of demonstrators tried to move towards the US embassy, but were dispersed.
Witnesses said they saw at least three people shot dead in the rioting.
Two had been trying to break through a police cordon and move into an area that includes the presidential palace and UN offices. Another was killed outside the luxury Serena Hotel, which had several window panes smashed.
The offices of Care International were among the buildings torched and the complex was also looted but no one was hurt, an employee said.
Offices of Oxfam and ACTED, a French NGO specialising in agriculture, were also looted and an international NGO worker slightly wounded when demonstrators attacked his car, various sources said.
British troops with the NATO-led force of peacekeepers in the city evacuated more than 20 people from an EU compoundm while French nationals from across the city flocked into their embassy.
In an address broadcast on television, Mr Karzai blamed "agitators" for the rioting and urged people "not to let them ruin our country once again", a reference to 25 years of war that have left much of the nation in ruins.
Originally posted by aging blitzerSeems there is also currently another problem with one of those in East Timor. Must be the season, or is it a forgone conclusion on installment that this will always occur? Somehow one has to search very hard to find a correctly functioning installation in todays environment:
would it be their puppet dictator?
sorry, times have changed, puppet democratically elected head of government
"RIVAL East Timorese gangs of masked youths went on a rampage today in an area between the Australian embassy and Dili airport, throwing rocks, torching buildings and brandishing machetes.
Australian soldiers were rushed into the area by four armoured personnel carriers and two trucks.
The diggers forced gang members from rival eastern and western clans at gunpoint to sit in two groups on the ground. "
Cut from with more at :
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19303688-2,00.html