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March 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Members of a senior council of Afghan clerics made the demand after a meeting with President Hamid Karzai on Friday.
The Ulema Council “insists that such a devilish act is not forgivable by apologies and that the perpetrators of this crime should soon be publicly tried and punished”, the president’s office said in a statement.
“The council strongly condemns the heinous, inhumane, barbaric act of disrespecting the Koran and other religious books by American forces in Bagram base.”
The clerics reiterated Karzai’s calls for the handover of the US-run prison at Bagram to Afghan control and an end to night raids, noting that the US-led foreign militaries have failed to positively respond to the “righteous demands.”
On February 21, US troops in the Bagram airbase torched copies of the Muslim holy book they had collected from the Afghan prisoners in there.
The desecration ignited days of anti-US protests in which some 40 people died in Afghanistan, plunged relations between the US-led forces and their Afghan allies to an all time low and forced US President Barack Obama to apologize.
Afghans have, however, rejected the apology and demanded an immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from their country.
The incident has also sparked angry protests against US and NATO forces in other Muslim countries, such as Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia.
MRS/JR
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