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Kabul residents protest against foreign troops.

Hundreds of men and women protested against foreign troops on Sunday in Kabul and demanded their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The demonstration started at around 10am from Shah Do Shamshera area of Kabul toward Deh Aghanan square, where the protesters chanted "death to the invaders", death to the countries which interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan" and "killers of Afghans should leave Afghanistan.

The demonstration follows the deaths on Friday of four civilians whose car apparently pulled out in front of an armoured vehicle belonging to an American Embassy contractor and was crushed. The accident drew large crowds who threw stones and set the contractors vehicles on fire.

The protesters also chanted slogans against Pakistan and Iran, two other countries they accuse of interfering in Afghanistans affairs. They condemned the acts of US and it alliance in Afghanistan, said chairman of Afghanistan Solidarity Party
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, Daud Razmak, who led the demonstration. He also mentioned the deaths of 52 civilians in Sangin district of southern Helmand province when killed when a rocket landed on their house. Locals say the rocket was fired by foreign forces fighting Taliban in the area, but NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF ISAF International Security Assistance Force (UN program)
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) has rejected the casualty numbers.

Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, the spokesman for ISAF, told reporters on Sunday that there was a disagreement over what happened in Sangin. He acknowledged that ISAF troops used precision missiles to fire at a compound from where they were receiving hostile fire In insurance law, a combustion that cannot be controlled, that escapes from where it was initially set and confined, or one that was not intended to exist.

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, but insisted that their information -- including satellite imagery of recent grave sites -- showed that only six to eight people had been killed. To date, the assessment team found no information to substantiate allegations of civilian deaths, beyond the possibility of one to three civilians may have been inadvertently killed when the insurgent INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities.  stronghold was engaged by coalition forces.

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Date:Aug 1, 2010
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