In for a penny, in for a pound.
I think most Aussies agree that rioting over a cartoon is the act of
backward savages.
ADF personnel in Afghanistan are as prepared today as they were last week
for any eventuality.
--
"Don't believe everything you think".
"eennah" <eennah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Afghan death threats for Danes, Dutch
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>
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> Ahmad Masood
> March 23, 2008
>
> SOME 5000 Afghans chanted "death to Denmark" and "death to the
> Netherlands" in a protest in Kabul against the reprinting of a cartoon
> of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers and a Dutch film on the
> Koran.
>
> In recent weeks, demonstrations have sprung up in the deeply
> conservative nation against the cartoons, first published in 2005, and
> the film, with protesters demanding Danish and Dutch troops be
> withdrawn from Afghanistan and their embassies shut down.
>
> Australia has about 1000 troops serving alongside Dutch forces in
> Oruzgan province in southern Afghanistan.
>
> The protesters gathered around a mosque chanting "death to Denmark",
> "death to the Netherlands", "death to America" and "death to Jews".
>
> Demonstrators burned Danish and Dutch flags and an effigy of Dutch
> right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who is due to release a film
> thought to be critical of the Koran later this month.
>
> Mr Wilders has given few details of the film, but in the past he has
> called Islam's holy text a "fascist" book that "incites violence".
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