The divide between occupier and occupied (Afghanistan)

[azurnoir]

A week of protests and a week of bloodshed. There appears to be no end to the anger being expressed in Afghanistan over the burning of the Quran by US troops at Bagram Air Base.

Despite repeated apologies from Barack Obama, the US president, and others in his administration, the incident is threatening to rip apart some of the fragile relationships that exist in the country

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And NATO members are criticising Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, for not speaking out more strongly against the wave of apparent revenge attacks.

But perhaps most significantly, the incident has exposed deeper roots to the anger - a resentment that has grown among many Afghans throughout the more than decade-long occupation of their country.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012/02/2012229611548731.html