Thousands Riot in Pakistan Over Cartoons
At least two people died in the rampage. Also, the Iraqi city of Basra demands the withdrawal of Denmark's military contingent from southern Iraq until an apology for the cartoons is proffered. Will this madness ever end?Some key developments Tuesday in the prophet drawings controversy:
* Thousands of protesters rampage through two cities in Pakistan, storming into a diplomatic district and torching Western businesses and a provincial assembly in the country’s worst violence against the prophet drawings. At least two people are killed and 11 injured.
* The provincial council in the Iraqi city of Basra demands the withdrawal of Denmark’s 530-member military contingent from southern Iraq unless the Danish government apologizes for the publication of the drawings. The cartoons were first printed in a Danish paper.
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The demonstrators, mostly young, unemployed men, carried Iraqi flags and demanded jobs, water and electricity.
The violence could signal a new round of political instability in the war-weary country.
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