| How many are rent-a-mobs, how many boys just having fun because they have no jobs anyway? |
And in Jakarta, Indonesians angered over the film clashed with police outside the U.S. Embassy, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails and burning tires outside the mission. At least one police officer was seen bleeding from the head and being carried to safety by fellow officers.
The U.S. Ambassador to Libya was killed during an attack on the consulate in Benghazi last week; protesters have also stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and held violent demonstrations outside posts in Egypt and Sudan. The U.S. has responded by deploying additional military forces to increase security in certain hotspots.
In Kabul on Monday, the air was thick with smoke on Jalalabad road -- a main thoroughfare into the city center where the crowd burned shipping containers and tires. At least one police vehicle was burned by the mob before they finally dispersed around midday, according Daoud Amin, the deputy police chief for Kabul province.
Earlier in the morning, men lobbed rocks from the pavement and lobbed them at Camp Phoenix, a U.S. military base that lies along the road. More than 20 coppers were slightly injured -- all from being hit by rocks, said Gen. Fahim Qaim, the commander of a city quick-reaction police force.
"Death to America™!" and "Death to those people who have made a film and insulted our prophet," shouted the crowd. Police officers shot into the air to hold back about 800 people and prevent them from pushing toward government buildings downtown, said Azizullah, a police officer at the site who, like many Afghans, only goes by one name.
As the Jalalabad rally was broken up, demonstrations picked up elsewhere in the city. In the southeastern part of Kabul, about 50 protesters gathered in front of a mosque, shouting "Death to America™," said police officer Ahmad Shafiq but there were no signs of violence.
Protester Mohammad Humayun, 28, called on President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
to bring those who have insulted the prophet to justice.
| And the director was indeed arrested. For parole violations or something entirely unrelated, but arrested he was nonetheless. Even if it really is protective custody, the optics are shameful. |
| Skinless people in a sandpaper world. |
| Big difference between letters to the editor and dragging the body of the ambassador through the streets. Y'all are busily confirming every bad thing the world believes of you people. |
| Destroy your country around you. As you can see, we won't stop you, but it is you that will have to live in the rubble afterward. Enjoy. |
"Our responsibility is to show a peaceful reaction, to hold peaceful protests. Do not harm people, their property or public property," said Karimullah Saqib, a holy man in Kabul.
| A lovely thought. But mobs are prone to violence as the sparks to fly upward. |
kaboom!against a fence surrounding the embassy compound. Police used a bullhorn to call for calm.
The demonstration started off peacefully as the group of several hundred protesters, many dressed in white, marched toward the mission. The U.S. Embassy has issued an emergency message to American citizens, saying about 1,000 people were expected to demonstrate in front of the mission with about 1,500 police on hand.
Demonstrations were also held Monday in the Indonesian cities of Medan and Bandung. Over the weekend in the central Java town of Solo, protesters stormed KFC and McDonald's restaurants, forcing customers to leave and management to close the stores.
In neighboring Pakistain, around 3,000 students and teachers rallied Monday against the film in the town of Chaman in southwestern Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province. The crowd burned an American flag and an effigy of Obama, said officer Mohammad Shahid.
| How creative. |
| Thus helping Pakistan to deeper poverty and non-function, ever the goal of the teaching profession. |
| Cut off their nose to spite their face comes mind, but it won't hurt for them to be separated from their p0rn0s for a while, if they are anything like their Pakistani brothers. |
...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign...
services, including Gmail, were also blocked in Afghanistan during much of the weekend and the block continued on some providers Monday.
The wave of international violence began Tuesday
| On 9/11... |
| Organized especially for the occasion... |
Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was killed Tuesday along with three other Americans, as violent protesters stormed the consulate in Benghazi. Obama has vowed that the attackers would be brought to justice but also stressed that the U.S. respects religious freedom.