Because Al Qur'an burning incident at NATO military base in Afghanistan, U.S. officials appear to apologize. After previous NATO generals and U.S. Defense Secretary,now the White House that spoke. ( video photos ). White House apologizes
In his statement, Tuesday, February 21, 2012, White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said the government Barack Obama to apologize for treating the Muslim holy book is not appropriate. That event, he said, is a very regrettable incident.
The incident did not represent the views of our military, and also not intended to reflect the disrespectful behavior of our soldiers and generals in view of religious practices and beliefs of the Afghan people, Carney said, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Like the previous two officials, Carney said that the U.S. government condemned the incident and said that it was not intentional. He also explained that the incident happened at a military base Bagram, north of Kabul, is now being investigated.
As a result of these events, thousands of people staged a protest in front of a U.S. military base. Some set fires and threw rocks at the base. *NATO troops fire rubber bullets issued to control the crowd*.
The issue of burning the holy book is a sensitive issue in Afghanistan. April last year 11 people were reported killed, seven of which were foreign UN workers, and dozens more injured in the protests that led to chaos in Mazar-i-Sharif from the Koran-burning plan by pastor Terry Jones in the U.S..
