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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 822039" data-attributes="member: 12952">(AP)&nbsp; — An Afghan official says police have arrested the suspected mastermind&nbsp; behind the attack on a UN compound that killed seven of the world&nbsp; body’s foreign staff.Rawof Taj, deputy police chief in Balkh&nbsp; province, said the suspected mastermind was from Kapisa province, a&nbsp; hotbed of the insurgency about 400 kilometres southeast of&nbsp; Mazar-i-Sharif, where the attack occurred.Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure US pastor killed up to 20 UN staff, beheading two foreigners, when they overran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst-ever attack on the UN in Afghanistan.At&nbsp; least eight foreigners were among the dead after attackers took out&nbsp; security guards, burned parts of the compound and climbed up blast walls&nbsp; to topple a guard tower, said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman&nbsp; for the northern region.Five protesters were also killed and around 20 wounded.Ya, I find this story to be a farce. All these killings because someone thousands of miles away burnt a book ?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 822039, member: 12952"] (AP) — An Afghan official says police have arrested the suspected mastermind behind the attack on a UN compound that killed seven of the world body’s foreign staff. Rawof Taj, deputy police chief in Balkh province, said the suspected mastermind was from Kapisa province, a hotbed of the insurgency about 400 kilometres southeast of Mazar-i-Sharif, where the attack occurred. [B]Afghan protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by an obscure US pastor killed up to 20 UN staff, beheading two foreigners,[/B] when they overran a compound in a normally peaceful northern city on Friday in the worst-ever attack on the UN in Afghanistan. At least eight foreigners were among the dead after attackers took out security guards, burned parts of the compound and climbed up blast walls to topple a guard tower, said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for the northern region. Five protesters were also killed and around 20 wounded. [COLOR=red]Ya, I find this story to be a farce. All these killings because someone thousands of miles away burnt a book ? [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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