Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Quando gli "assassini" sono quelli che vengono uccisi

4 Afghani  sono stati uccisi nelle manifestazioni sulle vignette.
Non dai "fanatici" manifestanti, ma dalla polizia del "libero"
Afghanistan.
L'articolo sotto parla delle manifestazioni sulla desecrazione del
Corano a Guantanamo, ma potrebbe riferirsi a oggi.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2613
When the "Killers" Do Most of the Dying
By Jim Naureckas
Rather than blaming Newsweek or the Pentagon, some commentators blamed
Muslim protesters for being so upset about the reported mistreatment of
the Quran. "From every part of the civilized world should have come
denunciations of those who would react to the supposed destruction of a
book with brutal threats and the slaughter of 17 innocent people,"
wrote Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe (5/19/05). "But the chorus of
condemnation was directed not at the killers and the fanatics who
incited them, but at Newsweek."
"The rioters are the real enemy," wrote David Brooks in the New
York Times (5/19/05). "After followers spend a few years living
through rabid riots and vicious sermons, killing an American or a Jew
or even a fellow Muslim seems no more consequential than killing a
mosquito."
Stanley Crouch (New York Daily News, 5/23/05) decried "the sorts of
wild Muslims who killed 15 or 16 people during three days of rioting in
Afghanistan."
The problem with these analyses is that the "killers" in the
Afghanistan riots were not mainly the Islamist protesters, but the
police forces of the U.S.-backed government. While rioters did cause
extensive property damage, the fatalities, according to Western news
reports, were overwhelmingly the result of police firing into crowds of
demonstrators.
"Afghan police opened fire yesterday at rioters protesting" the
Newsweek allegation, the Ottawa Citizen reported on May 12, noting that
"four demonstrators were killed and 71 injured in the clashes." The
next day, in what the New York Times (5/13/05) called "the most
violent single incident, the police fired on hundreds of tribesmen"
trying to join the Jalalabad protests; two protesters were killed (L.A.
Times, 5/13/05), while another person was killed by exploding
ammunition when a crowd set fire to a police station in Afghanistan's
Wardak province (Newsday, 5/13/05).
Even though "Islamic clerics urged protesters to refrain from
violence in their Friday sermons," the Washington Post (5/14/05)
reported that the following day saw more police violence: In Badakhshan
province, "police shot at the protesters, killing three and injuring
13"; another "protester was killed in a clash with police and
government soldiers" south of Kabul; one person was killed in Badghis
province "when police opened fire on a demonstration." That day
also saw the first apparent police fatality in the pro-Quran protests,
when "two civilians and a police officer were fatally shot and 21
people were wounded" in the city of Ghazni after "shooting broke
out after protesters stoned a police station and the governor's
residence." (The L.A. Times of May 14 reported that this incident
involved the deaths of three police officers.)
While details are naturally hard to confirm in Afghanistan's chaotic
environment, these early reports filed from Afghanistan made it clear
that the vast majority of the violence was perpetrated by police
against demonstrators. In follow-up stories generally reported from the
U.S., however, the responsibility for the deaths quickly became
blurred: "Fifteen people died and scores were injured in violence
between protesters and security forces," the Chicago Tribune reported
(5/16/05). USA Today referred (5/17/05) to "riots in Afghanistan and
Pakistan that killed 17 people."
It's a short step from attributing the deaths to no one in particular
to putting the blame on the protesters, who were in fact the main
casualties. In many pundits' eyes, though, those victims apparently
demonstrated their low regard for human life by failing to keep living
when struck by U.S.-supplied bullets.

 Afghanistan.
Smentiamo questa ennesima bufala del povero fesso disinformatore
Torrieri
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3563929a12,00.html
----
One killed, several hurt, in Afghan cartoon protest 
07 February 2006 
KABUL: Protests flared in several parts of Afghanistan yesterday against
cartoons depicting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad and one person
was killed and two wounded when shooting erupted in an eastern town,
police said. 
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Mehtarlam, capital of
Laghman province, and police fired into the air after protesters threw
stones at a police station, a police official in the town, Yar Mohammad,
told Reuters by telephone. 
He said instigators in the crowd linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda had
also opened fire and one person had been killed and two wounded. 
"There was some firing from within the crowd by Taliban and al Qaeda
members, too, in order to enrage the protesters," he said. 
"We've heard that by the firing from the Taliban and al Qaeda, one
person was killed and two were wounded," Mohammad said. Two policemen
were wounded by stones thrown by protesters, he said.
----
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/02/06/ap2502923.html
----
Associated Press 
Update 20: Anti-Cartoon Clashes Spread, Turn Deadly 
By AMIR SHAH , 02.06.2006, 10:56 AM 
 
Afghan security forces opened fire on demonstrators Monday, leaving at
least four dead, as increasingly violent protests erupted around the
world over published caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. European
and Muslim politicians pleaded for calm. 
The worst of the violence was outside Bagram, the main U.S. base in
Afghanistan, with Afghan police firing on some 2,000 protesters as they
tried to break into the heavily guarded facility, said Kabir Ahmed, the
local government chief. 
Two demonstrators were killed and five were injured, while eight police
also were hurt, he said. No U.S. troops were involved in the clashes,
the military said. 
Afghan police also fired on protesters in the central city of Mihtarlam
after a man in the crowd shot at them and others threw stones and
knives, Interior Ministry spokesman Dad Mohammed Rasa said. 
Two protesters were killed, and three other people were wounded,
including two police, officials said. The demonstrators burned tires and
threw stones at government offices.
----
Come si vede la polizia si e' semplicemente difesa dai "fanatici
manifestanti" che hanno mandato molti poliziotti in ospedale.
-Stefano