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| Women protesting Quran burning |
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| Angry Muslims in front of the US military Base |
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| Angry protesters occupying the US base' perimeters |
US soldiers reported to have burned the Quran and other religious objects at the US' largest base in Afghanistan are now in for time of their lives as angry Muslims numbering over 2000 storms the base to protest the assault on their faith. Some even firing gun shots into the air.
NATO officials scrambled furiously to contain the fallout, tweeting and emailing reporters not long after the first protests began. Gen. John Allen, the commander of all foreign forces in Afghanistan, released a statement, then a video statement, then gave an interview to NATO television. In his and in all NATO officials' communication today, each emphasized that the burning was unintentional.
"Those materials were inadvertently given to troops for disposition and that disposition was to burn the materials. It was not a decision that was made because they were religious materials," Allen told NATO TV. "It was not a decision that was made with respect to the faith of Islam. It was a mistake, it was an error. The moment we found out about it we immediately stopped and we intervened."
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