Afghanistan Bagram Air Base Qur’an Burning Protest Photos February 2012
February 24, 2012 in Headline
An Afghan demonstrator holds a copy of a half-burnt Koran, allegedly set on fire by US soldiers, at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration at Bagram, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul, on February 21, 2012. The copies of the burnt Korans and Islamic religious texts were obtained by Afghan workers contracted to work inside Bagram air base, and presented to demonstrators gathered outside the military installation. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO / Massoud HOSSAINI
Afghan demonstrators shout anti-US slogans at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
A wounded Afghan boy stands at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
People gather near a fire at Bagram airbase during a protest on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/Shah MARAI
Afghan youth throw stones toward US soldiers standing at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
Afghan youth throw stones toward US soldiers at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
An Afghan man aims a sling shot toward US soldiers at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
Afghan youth throw stones toward US soldiers at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
A US soldier wields his assault rifle (L) as another soldier handles a shotgun while standing at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration at Bagram, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul, on February 21, 2012. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO / Massoud HOSSAINI
Afghan youth take cover from the rubbers bullets shot by US soldiers at the gates of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
Assorted spent ordnance is strewn on the ground at a protest in front of Bagram airbase on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/Shah MARAI
Afghan youth throw stones toward US soldiers at the gate of Bagram airbase during a protest against Koran desecration on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
Afghan demonstrators show copies of Koran books allegedly set alight by US soldiers, during a protest against Koran desecration at the gate of Bagram airbase on February 21, 2012 at Bagram about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Kabul. Afghan protestors firing slingshots and petrol bombs besieged one of the largest US-run military bases in Afghanistan, furious over reports that NATO had set fire to copies of the Koran. Guards at Bagram airbase responded by firing rubber bullets from a watchtower, an AFP photographer said as the crowd shouted "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar" (God is greater). AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai
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I do not realy have words how to condem this vesious act of nato cowboy shoulder,this hungry and vesious nato forces came to our country in order to help Afghan people so soon after when these grady forces arrived to Afghanistan,instead of help they start genociding Afghan people and now they came to the point to hurt us spiretualy and morally so continue your cowboy act and muslim also doing thier work but at the end of the day that the final victory will gain by Afghans muslim people and the rest of the muslim around the world INSHA ALLAH.
why don’t you grow up instead of blowing yourselves up.
Yeah, ^^^^Muslims are so tolerant, yeah right. You people reap what you sow. Anything possible to allow you and your infidels to riot.
The previous two comments (kachonka and dayan inikhaton) don’t seem to realise that the pictures don’t show Taliban or the usual suspects, but your common or garden Afghan. For whatever reason the Korans were to be consigned to the flames, this is a huge error by the US and wider NATO forces, and will, I believe, ensure Karzai’s swift exit from the Afghan stage when ISAF forces withdraw: probably in the same way Najibullah left the Afghan stage.
Ever since 9/11 US forces have seldom lost an opportunity to make a bad situation worse, from the earliest killings of wedding parties in Afghanistan, through the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to incidents like this apparent destruction of Korans. You can’t rule the world through the sights of an M-16 or an Apache, now and again you have to persuade people to like you. And with cock up after cock up like this one, the people you need to persuade are the very ones who’ll end up disaffected.
It’s unlikely that Islam will end up with the final victory, but only because people like Al Qaeda are almost as adept at annoying Muslims as the United States.
I have to disagree with you Edward. The US is on Peace Keeping in Afghanistan. President Obama appoligized for the burning of the Qu’rans. To the Muslims Community appoligy NOT accepted. From what I see they teach their boys to riot. More testosterone on the streets. They really should learn from the elephants in Africa that when a male is taken out of he younger male’s life it will become aggressive. It will not care about destruction or life. The Muslim community just does not have any value for life in general. When will they truly become people of peace? In my eyes they will never, for the fact that they cannot accept the indefference in others and will always side with destruction. Really is sad.
NATO and ISAF, the bodies under whom the action in Afghanistan is undertaken, are doing foreign internal defence, not peacekeeping. They’re at WAR with the Taliban (emphasis for those who’ve not been paying attention for the last ten years). American apology has followed American apology in Afghanistan – perhaps you recall the recent images of US Marines urinating on corpses, or the numerous reports of wedding parties massacred by American forces. It is a pity that the American forces haven’t managed to stop making such unforced errors. Given the number of foreign adventures the US has embarked on since 1945 – including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Colombia, Iraq (twice), Panama and Afghanistan – perhaps it’s the Americans who don’t have any value for life in general.
Obviously most Americans do place some value on life, and Muslims are just the same. But a few people rioting is as nothing compared to the violence unleashed by US forces. Until you realise that the United States has something of an image problem, a problem which is in very large measure its own fault, you’re not going to realise why so many Muslims have something of a problem with it.
I wonder why no one is protesting the Afghan prisioners who descrated the copies of the Koran by writing messages in them? None of the messages were words of peace, all were of evil. Yet, no one is upset about THAT. Havent heard anyone appologies for the killing of US Soldiers, whose only job it is to HELP the the Afgan people. Maybe the US ought to leave and let the Afgan people descrate their Koran, then justify it.
thats not fare