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Bagram Air Base

Two Afghan laborers were killed and four were injured on Monday as they were leaving the Bagram air base in Afghanistan at a time a suicide bomber attempted to breach the outer gates of the huge military installation in a bid to retaliate for the incidental burning of the Quran two weeks ago.
The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility through a text message they sent to journalists, but the message could not be confirmed. The Taliban claimed responsibility for a number of violent acts that were staged since the incident at the air base.
The governor of the Parwan province, where the Bagram base is located, said that the suicide bomber attempted to rush to the gates at 6 p.m., as the people were leaving the base. The gate where he was headed was being in the care of the Afghan security forces.
A spokesman for NATO confirmed that no Western personnel was killed during the suicide attack, which was the second suicide bombing this Monday, after a man blew himself up in Jalalabad, the most important hub of the eastern Afghanistan.
Nine people were killed in Jalalabad on February 27, as a car exploded in the proximity of the airport. The incident was also claimed by the Taliban.
30 people lost their lives in the protests that followed the announcement that Qurans were burnt at the Bagram burning pit incidentally, after the personnel decided to clean up the rooms of former Afghan convicts.
The leader of the NATO operation in Afghanistan, general John Allen, apologized for the incident, and stressed out that it was not a premeditated action, but one that was the result of ignorance of those who took the trash out and could not see that there were holy books among the things to be disposed of. He promised that an investigation would be under way to establish exactly how such a thing could have happened.
The apology did not suffice, and was followed by a wave of violence, and attempts to attack the military base or the interests of the American troops in the region.
The same kind of apology made the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, who said that the event was regrettable but insisted that those who did it were absolutely ignorant of what they were doing.
The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, who received the apology letter from the American president, told the parliament that the event was to be regretted but that it was the fruit of ignorance, not of premeditations.
Last Saturday, two American officers were killed inside the building of the Interior Ministry in Kabul. Their bodies were found in a locker and an investigation was launched. The president Karzai called for calm and expressed condolences to the families of the deceased officers.
The tense ties between the Afghan and the Americans were complicated by this incident at a time when the American troops are preparing to leave the country after a decade of occupation, and the Taliban are asserting themselves as the force to take over from the Americans.
A burning of the Quran was averted a year ago in America, when a pastor proposed that the 9/11 events be celebrated by a ritualistic burning of the holy book of Islam. The idea was dropped when it became obvious that it would hurt the American troops the way it is affecting them now.

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