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@AzadiRadio interviews #NATO #ISAF spokesman Jacobson on protests against Koran burning: “It is a clear mistake. It is just not understanding what it meant to take religious material for destruction and in particular, to have Korans involved in it. It is a very clear mistake.”
Photo by Radio Azadi’s Sayaed Jan Sabawoon.
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Five Reported Dead In Afghan Koran Protests
Photos by Radio Azadi’s Daud Wafa and Sayaed Jan Sabawoon.
Radio Azadi’s correspondent in Jalalabad says the shots were fired by members of the Afghan National Police who were trying to contain the surging crowd.
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![World’s Largest Koran To Be Presented To Tatar President
KAZAN, Russia — A Koran billed as the world’s largest is to be presented to the leader of the Russian republic of Tatarstan on November 17, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
Slovenian media reported this week that the jewel-encrusted Koran was made at a cost of some 1 million euros ($1.3million) by a Slovenian-owned company based in Gorizia…[READ MORE]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lur2zgVIXv1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
World’s Largest Koran To Be Presented To Tatar President
KAZAN, Russia — A Koran billed as the world’s largest is to be presented to the leader of the Russian republic of Tatarstan on November 17, RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
Slovenian media reported this week that the jewel-encrusted Koran was made at a cost of some 1 million euros ($1.3million) by a Slovenian-owned company based in Gorizia…[READ MORE]
