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| Anti-US Protests Spread Through Muslim Countries |
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THU, OCT 11, 2001
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As the U.S.-led air strikes against terrorism continue, anti-U.S. protests are spreading through many Muslim countries. The demonstrators denounced the military attacks on Afghanistan and voiced their solidarity with the people of Afghanistan, the Taliban government and Osama bin Laden.
In Pakistan, hundreds of Taliban supporters protested in Peshawar on Wednesday after U.S. missiles and bombs rained down on Afghanistan for a third night. Chanting anti-American slogans, the protesters waved posters of Osama bin Laden. They said Americans were the real terrorists, not the Taliban. A heavy police presence kept watch over the rally and fired tear gas to keep protesters from getting out of control.
In a separate incident, a convoy of jornalists was stoned by a crowd of Afghan refugees as they were driving to the border with Afghanistan.
In Indonesia, 1,000 Muslim students held a rowdy protest outside the parliament, marking the biggest anti-American demonstration in Jakarta so far this week.
Students danced around a burning effigy of U.S. President George.W Bush and shouted anti-American slogans. Earlier on Wednesday, several hundred protesters tried to break down the parliament gates under the watchful eyes of scores of riot police staioned just inside the compound.
But police force said the situation is under control and that it would not tolerate any violence.
Some 90 percent of Indonesian's 210 million people are Muslim. Most Indonesians say the street protests are excessive. But many also oppose the U.S.-led air strikes.
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