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To: PartyTime who wrote (5951)	2/14/2006 2:00:38 AM
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To: PartyTime who wrote (5951)	2/14/2006 9:31:23 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

Two dead in Pakistan rioting Tuesday, February 14, 2006; Posted: 8:27 a.m. EST (13:27 GMT) LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- More than 1,000 protesters stormed into Islamabad's diplomatic district while thousands vandalized Western businesses and torched a government building in another city Tuesday, in Pakistan's worst wave of violence against the Prophet Mohammed cartoons, officials said. At least two people were killed. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said two protesters died in the worst of the violence in the eastern city of Lahore, when a bank security guard opened fire to prevent demonstrators from forcing their way into a bank. He said paramilitary troops were deployed in the city to restore order, after stone-throwing protesters ran amok. Witnesses said rioters torched the provincial assembly building and targeted Western businesses, breaking windows at a Holiday Inn hotel and Pizza Hut, KFC and McDonald's restaurants. They also damaged more than 200 cars, two banks, dozens of shops and a large portrait of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, witnesses said. The protesters also looted the office of Telenor, a Norwegian mobile phone company, and people ran away with computers, mobile phones and other equipment, witnesses said. Clouds of tear gas were hanging over central Lahore where the violence was occurred. On Monday, police fired tear gas and wielded batons to stop about 7,000 students protesting the publication of the Prophet Mohammed cartoons from marching on the governor's residence in Peshawar. The students had earlier marched to several universities in Peshawar and hurled stones at a Christian school, breaking windows and causing other damage. They also threw stones at shops in the city's main business district, chanting "Down with America" and "Down with Denmark." President Gen. Pervez Musharraf told journalists in the capital Islamabad on Monday that newspapers that have printed the caricatures were "being totally oblivious to the consequences for the world, for world peace and harmony." "The most moderate Muslim will go to the street and talk against it because this hurts the sentiments of every Muslim," he said. "Whether an extremist or a moderate or an ultra moderate, we will condemn it." Several large rallies have been held across Pakistan against the cartoons, which were first published in a Danish newspaper in September. The latest came Friday when thousands of people protested in the nation's biggest cities. The cartoons have been reprinted in numerous publications in Europe and elsewhere in what publishers say is a show of solidarity for freedom of expression, setting off protests from Canada to Indonesia. Some of the protests have been violent, and the tension has noticeably increased anti-Western dialogue in the Muslim world. A few dozen demonstrators threw stones and firecrackers at the German embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, in renewed protests about the publication of cartoons of the Prophet. The protesters, mostly religious seminary students, chanted: "Germany you are fascists and servants of Zionism." The stones and firecrackers did not appear to cause any serious damage, a Reuters journalist at the scene said. CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.