Demo in Kabul over cartoons plus ISAF comments, adds bite

(8 Feb 2006) 1. Various of protesters (students) marching 2. Police with shields and helmets 3. Tilt up shot of protesters burning flags on roof top 4. Burning flag (Danish flag, but identity is not visible) 5. Protester, UPSOUND: chanting 6. Women protesters 7. Men protesting 8. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Shahla Noori, university student: "Today we are gathered at this to the demo to show our reaction, hatred, and anger towards the danish government. The religion of Islam does not accept what the Danish government did. It's not acceptable for islamic religion. I asked the others islamic countries to wake up and to show their hatred and anger towards the Danish government. The Danish government is unforgivable. The Danish government should apologise to all the other islamic governments." 9. Wide of crowd 10. Wide of crowd marching 11. Crowd marching with police looking on ISAF headquarters, Kabul - 8 February 2006 12. Wide of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force ) briefing 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel James Yonts, coalition spokesperson in Afghanistan: "The issue in Qalat, at the US base in Qalat, seems to follow the same path that the other incidents have occurred in ISAF's north sector and, Kandahar, where you had a peaceful demonstration, started out very peaceful, 400 people maybe at the most, that for some reason, accelerated into a violent demonstration resulting in tragically injuring tragedies and death to Afghan people." 14. Cutaway of military personnel 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel James Yonts, coalition spokesperson in Afghanistan: "At this time I'm not able to say whether or not the US forces fired the shots, or the shots were fired by ANA (Afghan National Army) or AMP (American Military Police), that is being investigated by the AMP at this time. I really don't know who fired those shots." 16. Journalists 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel James Yonts, coalition spokesperson in Afghanistan: "Whether or not there is a Taliban or Al Qaida connection to this, I can only speak about what is happening here but we cannot forget that this is bigger than just Afghanistan. It is occurring elsewhere. I do know that our country, the United States, and other countries are providing assistance in any manner that they can for the answer to that exact question that you are talking about, in a global type of look to that, to see if this is something larger than just a small demonstration, if there is a tie to that, if there is an infrastructure, a connection to it." 18. Briefing team (audio quality poor as incoming) 19. Flags STORYLINE: Police killed four protesters on Wednesday, during a third day of deadly rioting in Afghanistan over the publishing of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in European newspapers. Hundreds of university students, including women, marched peacefully through Kabul, chanting "Death to the Danish! Death to Americans!" A heavy police presence was in operation as protests continued in the capital. Demonstrators burned Danish flags and chanted. One university student, Shahla Noori said the Danish government should apologise. The Coalition spokesperson in Afghanistan, US Army Colonel James Yonts said, the United States and other countries are examining whether extremist groups are inciting protesters to riot around the world over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Yonts stressed that they had no evidence to support suggestions that al-Qaida or Taliban are linked to the riots in Afghanistan. It was unclear who was responsible for the killing of four demonstrators in the southern city of Qalat, and police are investigating, he said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...