KABUL, Afghanistan — Two U.S. troops were gunned down by two Afghan soldiers and an accomplice Thursday, the latest of six American service members killed by their Afghan partners since the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. base last week sent anti-Americanism soaring in a nation that has long distrusted foreigners....
.... The latest victims were killed on a joint U.S.-Afghan base ... by two Afghan soldiers and Afghan civilian literacy instructor who fired from a sentry tower, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. NATO forces shot and killed two of the assailants, apparently the soldiers, said Pentagon press secretary George Little.
Islam: Making a True Difference in the World... One Body at a Time.
As noted at "blog" by Malise Rethven for the New York Review of Books, as of February last year:
More than five years after Danish artist Kurt Westergaard published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, lives continue to be lost and — if we are to believe the police and intelligence agencies of dozens of countries — assassinations are still being attempted and plotted because Muslims have been angered by the display of such images....
.... The original controversy over the Muhammad cartoons arose in September 2005, when Jyllands-Posten published a number of images intended to satirize Islamic extremism, including Westergaard’s notorious caricature of Muhammad....
(No copies of the cartoons accompanied this article.)
Posted by: Tom Glennon | Thursday, 01 March 2012 at 07:14 PM