Protest in Jalalabad

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Protest in Jalalabad

An Afghan presidential delegation that was visited the site where the U.S. sergeant had carried out his attack that killed 16 on Sunday was attacked from many directions by angry militants. Two of the brothers of president Karzai and top security officials were in the delegation that visited Panjwai village, in Kandahar province.
The members of the delegation had to return to Kandahar, because it was not safe. Afghan forces returned fire as they came under attack. The delegation was in the village to meet villagers and tribal elders.
The interior minister Sediq Sediqqi said that one or more enemy were in the village and that they started shooting as soon as the delegation arrived. This reflects the increasingly anti-American sentiment since the incidents started to happen in Afghanistan.
600 students attended a rally on Tuesday in the city of Jalalabad, and condemned the Kandahar attack by chanting “Death to America! Death to Obama!”
The Kandahar shooting spree on Sunday determined Obama to apologize to the Afghan people, the second such apology in two months and to say that what happened was “heartbreaking and tragic.” Obama phoned Karzai on Sunday night and expressed condolences, adding that the man who did this did not represent the exceptional character of the American troops nor the respect the U.S. forces have for the people in Afghanistan.
However, he added, the Western withdrawal from Afghanistan must be made in a responsible way, without giving into the temptation of letting these events rush things up. Before they pull out, the president said, the American troops must make sure that the Afghan borders are secure and that the al-Qaeda is kept out of the territory.
The American sergeant was being held in custody in an undisclosed location, and could face death penalty, if found guilty, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. The Taliban promised to revenge and to behead “sadistic” American soldiers.
Leon Panetta said that war was hell, and that things like the one that happened on Sunday could happen in any war. The American troops revealed that the man who executed the killing spree was suffering from a brain trauma caused by a wreck as a vehicle he was in rolled over. He was however considered fit for duty. His medical history will be part of the investigation too.
Details emerge about the killing of the 16 villagers that took place in the Kandahar region, as a sergeant, which is said to have served for 11 years in the U.S. army and to have been three times in Iraq, left his base and went on a rampage in the nearby villages.
The villagers recount how they were scared as he entered house by house and tried to get inside. A woman was said to have been pulled out by her hair and banged against the wall to reveal what he wanted to hear.
Reports say that he broke into three houses and killed 16 people, most of them women and children, then he burnt their bodies. Leon Panetta said that the man then returned to the base where he was operating and told what had happened, practically turning himself in.
His name would not be disclosed, the defense secretary added, for the duration of the investigation. The recount of the facts is a little different from what some of the villagers say and some of the decision-makers in Kabul think.
There are reports from the villagers that fire was executed from different parts of the village, that there was machine gun fire and pistol fire, and that a helicopter had been heard.
Some speculated that the rampage was staged by more than one soldier, others believe that the officials at the base sent troops after him, and he was recuperated by the others that were present. The official report right now is that the man was acting alone and committed the crimes all by himself.
The tragedy brought together politicians from all over the Afghan fragmented political landscape. They all condemned the violent crime committed against innocent people. The president Karzai said that the bloodshed over the weekend was “unforgivable.”
The Afghan parliament has demanded a public trial for the man suspected, while the Taliban deemed the American troops operating in Afghanistan as “sick-minded savages.”
The incident comes a few weeks after another incident caused by American troops in Afghanistan shocked and appalled the Afghan people. At the Bagram Air Base the soldiers accidentally burnt Quran books that were found in the cells of their former detainees.
The incident caused a huge wave of outrage, protests and attempts to kill American soldiers, some of which succeeded at the Interior Ministry in Kabul, where the corpses of two American officers were found.
Last year, the United States was in the position to apologize for another incident, as four American troopers were showed in a video on Youtube urinating on the dead bodies of some Taliban people.

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