(14 May 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot scuffles between protesters and police, police firing
2. Ghazni Governor Asadullah Khalid asking police to stop shooting
3. Mid shot one of the protesters attacking governor
4. Wide shot police firing
5. Mid shot Ghazni police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang being injured and helped by colleagues
6. Wide shot the police chasing protesters and opening fire
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6. Wide shot protesters being approached by police, audio of gun fire
7. Protesters throwing stones at police, police retreating and firing back
8. Protesters running, chanting "Death to America"
9. Mid shot policemen firing
10. Various of police firing
STORYLINE
The United States has called for calm in Afghanistan while it investigates allegations that US interrogators desecrated Islam's holy book, triggering deadly protests across the country.
Shooting broke out in the southeastern city of Ghazni after Friday prayers, as protesters swarmed toward a police station and the governor's residence, chanting "Death to America" and pelting the buildings with rocks.
Hospital authorities said two civilians and a police officer were killed and 21 people were wounded, including the provincial police chief.
The protests began after Newsweek magazine reported in its May 9 edition that interrogators at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, placed Qurans in washrooms to unsettle suspects and in one incident allegedly flushed a holy book down the toilet.
Many of the 520 inmates at Guantanamo are Muslims arrested during the US-led war against the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies in Afghanistan.
The Newsweek allegations triggered deadly protests across Afghanistan, which claimed the lives of at least 15 people so far.
The violence - the biggest outpouring of anti-American sentiment since the US-led military campaign drove the Taliban regime from power at the end of 2001 - is threatening a security crisis for the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Afghan officials suggested opponents of the country's painstaking democratic rebirth were stirring up the trouble, while the US government
appealed for calm and stressed that the desecration charge was being investigated by the Pentagon.
Saudi Arabia has joined fellow US ally Pakistan in registering dismay over the allegations, as has the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a banned militant religious movement.
But aside from Afghans, few in Muslim lands have taken to the streets.
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