Britain withdraws diplomats from Kabul

An Afghan soldier, angry with the US troops’ burning a copy of the holy Qur’an in the Bagram base, went on a shooting rampage at the Interior Ministry building in Kabul and killed two US troopers in retaliation for the troops’ desecration of the holy book.

“As a temporary measure the British Embassy has withdrawn civilian mentors and advisers from institutions within Kabul. We will keep the situation under review,” said a Foreign Office spokesman,

The announcement came as General John Allen, the commander of NATO and US troops in Afghanistan, said he was recalling NATO personnel from the ministries in the city “for obvious force protection reasons.”

NATO has deployed advisers embedded in many Afghan ministries in an attempt to be able to exercise control over local staff.

Five days after the incident in Bagram air base, the violent protests over the burning of Qur’an by U.S. troops showed no sign of abating.

At least 30 Afghans have been killed and hundreds wounded since Tuesday, when it first emerged that the holy book and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn rubbish at the Bagram base.

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