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February 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “NATO officials, in response to a request for the trial and punishment of the perpetrators…promised this crime will brought to court as soon as possible,” read a statement released by the Afghan presidential office on Thursday.
The report comes as Afghan President Hamid Karzai had earlier accused a US officer of ‘ignorantly’ burning copies of Holy Qur’an at the US-run Bagram Airbase, located 11 kilometers (7 miles) southeast of the city of Charikar in the province.
The presidential statement said on Thursday that the American officer had acted ‘out of ignorance and with poor understanding’ of the importance of Holy Qur’an.
It added that an investigation into the Qur’an burning would most likely be concluded later on Thursday.
Also on Thursday, US President Barack Obama sent a letter to his Afghan counterpart, apologizing for the acts of desecration.
White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor, said that the letter was delivered to Karzai by US Ambassador to Kabul Ryan Crocker.
Obama told Karzai that the incident, which has sparked angry protests against the United States and the Western military alliance of NATO’s forces in Afghanistan, was not intentional, Vietor said. “In the letter…the president also expressed our regret and apologies over the incident in which religious materials were unintentionally mishandled at Bagram Airbase.”
At least 20 Afghans have been killed as a result of the measures taken to repel the protests over the acts of sacrilege.
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