| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Qurban Ali Hamzi - Reuters |
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| FAIZABAD - A group of Afghan Muslim clerics threatened on Sunday to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Koran. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: The Independent (UK) |
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| Instead of fizzling out, the rebels are staging their annual spring resurgence with a surprising new spirit, writes Nick Meo from Kabul. This wasn't what US military planners were expecting |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 15, (Pajhwok Afghan News):Eyewitnesses claim that a fire at a military hospital in the capital Kabul was caused when a rocket exploded around 2200Hrs, but interior ministry officials say they will determine the cause of the fire after further investigations. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Xinhuanet |
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| KABUL, May 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Afghan Defense Ministry on Sunday accused foreign hands of involvement in the violent demonstrations that have claimed around 27 lives since last Tuesday. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 15th (Pajhwok Afghan News) -- The minister of Hajj said the Mullahs and spiritual leaders played a role in preventing bloodshed during country-wide demonstrations incited by reports of the desecration of a Holy Quran Koran at a US detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, by preaching against violence during Friday prayers. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: RFE/RL |
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| Tensions continue to run high in Afghanistan after at least 10 people have died in recent anti-U.S. protests there. The violence occurred over reports that interrogators at the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, desecrated the Koran. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that opponents of Afghanistan's close links with Washington are inciting the violent protests. But he also says U.S. military action in Afghanistan may have helped create resentments among ordinary Afghans. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Carlotta Gall - The New York Times |
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| GHAZNI - President Hamid Karzai returned from a trip to drum up more aid from Europe on Saturday to express shame and frustration at the violence that has racked Afghanistan over the last five days, leaving at least 17 dead and many wounded. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: AP |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Muslim leaders in an Afghan province hit by deadly violence over allegations that Islam's holy book was desecrated at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay urged American authorities to investigate and respond within three days, officials said. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: IRNA |
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| The Hizb-e Islami chief and former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has rejected an amnesty and dialogue offer by Afghanistan Reconciliation Commission and said he will continue 'holy war' against foreign troops. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 15, (Pajhwok Afghan News) -- President Hamid Karzai will be talking to US authorities during his visit to the United States at the end May, about the release of Afghan prisoners held at the US detention centers within Afghanistan and Guantanmo Bay camp in Cuba, the President's spokesman Jawed Ludin said today. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 14, (Pajhwok Afghan News) – International peace keeping forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan says they will increase the number of F-16 fighter jets in the country, to better assist the security in the country. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: VIENNA |
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| VIENNA — Iraq is now becoming a major transit point for drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe via Iran, it was announced here on Thursday by the UN International Drug Control Organisation. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Sayed Yaqub |
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| In an unprecedented move, young people across Afghanistan have set aside ethnic differences to campaign for national unity. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA, Associated Press WriterSun |
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| An estimated 500 bodies have been laid out in a school in the eastern Uzbek city where troops fired on a crowd of protesters to put down an uprising, a doctor said Sunday, corroborating witness accounts of hundreds killed in the fighting. |
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| May 15, 2005 |
| By: Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 15, (Pajhwok Afghan News)-- The Afghan Karate team has come second in the Asian ‘full-contact’ heats after winning a gold medal, beating their strongest opponent Japan, officials said Sunday. |
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