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11-05-05, 19:47
Afghanen woedend om misbruik koran
KABUL In de Afghaanse stad Jalalabad zijn zeker vier doden en 50 gewonden gevallen bij hevige rellen. Woedende betogers gingen daar de straat op toen bekend werd dat op Guantanamo Bay de koran ontheiligd zou worden.
Amerikaanse en Afghaanse militairen konden niet voorkomen dat gebouwen van de Verenigde Naties en van Westerse hulporganisaties bestormd werden.
In het blad Newsweek stond deze week een artikel over het gevangenenkamp Guantanamo Bay, waar al-Qaeda- en Taliban-gevangenen worden vastgehouden. Tijdens een verhoor zou een exemplaar van de koran in een wc zijn gegooid.
http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2005/05/art0000A0060869.html
ISLAMABAD - Imran Khan, a legendary Pakistani cricket player turned politician, demanded an apology on Friday from the United States following a magazine report that U.S. interrogators in Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran.
Newsweek magazine, in its latest edition, quoted sources as saying that investigators probing abuses at the military prison had discovered that interrogators "had placed Korans on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet".
Khan, a member of parliament, told a news conference that Pakistan, as a frontline state in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, should seek an apology, an inquiry and assurances from the United States that those responsible would be punished.
"This war on terrorism is self-defeating if, on the one hand, you are demanding that we help them (the United States) and, on the other hand, they are desecrating the book on which our entire faith is based. The entire world knows that; even the Americans know how sacred that book is," Khan told a news conference.
Khan said he had called on the National Assembly to take up the issue. Khan is his party's only member of parliament, but his standing as a successful former Pakistan cricket captain gives him a high profile.
A high-level U.S. military investigation into accusations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay has still to be completed and released.
The United States is holding over 500 prisoners from its war on terrorism at the naval base on Cuba.
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KABUL In de Afghaanse stad Jalalabad zijn zeker vier doden en 50 gewonden gevallen bij hevige rellen. Woedende betogers gingen daar de straat op toen bekend werd dat op Guantanamo Bay de koran ontheiligd zou worden.
Amerikaanse en Afghaanse militairen konden niet voorkomen dat gebouwen van de Verenigde Naties en van Westerse hulporganisaties bestormd werden.
In het blad Newsweek stond deze week een artikel over het gevangenenkamp Guantanamo Bay, waar al-Qaeda- en Taliban-gevangenen worden vastgehouden. Tijdens een verhoor zou een exemplaar van de koran in een wc zijn gegooid.
http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2005/05/art0000A0060869.html
ISLAMABAD - Imran Khan, a legendary Pakistani cricket player turned politician, demanded an apology on Friday from the United States following a magazine report that U.S. interrogators in Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran.
Newsweek magazine, in its latest edition, quoted sources as saying that investigators probing abuses at the military prison had discovered that interrogators "had placed Korans on toilets, and in at least one case flushed a holy book down the toilet".
Khan, a member of parliament, told a news conference that Pakistan, as a frontline state in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, should seek an apology, an inquiry and assurances from the United States that those responsible would be punished.
"This war on terrorism is self-defeating if, on the one hand, you are demanding that we help them (the United States) and, on the other hand, they are desecrating the book on which our entire faith is based. The entire world knows that; even the Americans know how sacred that book is," Khan told a news conference.
Khan said he had called on the National Assembly to take up the issue. Khan is his party's only member of parliament, but his standing as a successful former Pakistan cricket captain gives him a high profile.
A high-level U.S. military investigation into accusations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay has still to be completed and released.
The United States is holding over 500 prisoners from its war on terrorism at the naval base on Cuba.
© Reuters 2005. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
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