[Trigger warning for violence.]
"This is not the beginning of the end for the international community in Afghanistan. This is the end. Terry Jones and others will continue to pull anti-Islam stunts and opportunistic extremists here will use those actions to incite attacks against foreigners. Unless we, the internationals, want our guards to fire on unarmed protestors from now on, the day has come for us to leave Afghanistan."—Una Moore, an international development professional based in Afghanistan, on the attack on the UN compound in Afghanistan today, which left at least 12 people dead.
The attack was carried out by "thousands of protesters" who had been urged to action by their mullahs: "Friday's episode began when three mullahs, addressing worshipers at Friday Prayer inside the Blue Mosque here, one of Afghanistan's holiest places, urged people to take to the streets to agitate for the arrest of Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran on March 20."
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