21 February 2012 - 20:30

Large numbers of people have turned up for angry demonstrations in Afghanistan after US-led forces in the war-wracked country burned copies of the Holy Qur’an.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - In a new crime that reveals US-Zionist desecration of Islamic sanctities and disparage the feelings of more than one Billion Muslims, foreign troops in Afghanistan burned copies of the Holy Quran in the Bagram US military airbase.

The angry protesters on Tuesday held protest rallies in Kabul as well as outside the US Bagram Airbase and chanted anti-US slogans, demanding the trial of the perpetrators of the desecrating act.

At least one Afghan protester was injured after US troops opened fire to disperse the angry demonstrators near the airbase, about 60 kilometers north of Kabul.