US embassy in Afghanistan on lockdown as anti-American protests continue over Koran burning incident

KABUL - The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, said the blocking of rabies in several Afghan cities demonstrations during an incident in the United States accidentally burned Muslim holy book on a military base.
"The message is in the castle, suspended all trips," the embassy said on his Twitter page Wednesday. "Please, everyone be safe."
The embassy issued a statement later head of security, says U.S. citizens should remain vigilant and avoid areas where Westerners congregate.

"We want American citizens past events in Afghanistan in violent attacks on Western targets of opportunity to remind escalated," the statement said. "U.S. citizens are therefore urged to avoid areas of demonstrations if possible, and be careful if they are within the vicinity of any demonstrations, spontaneous or planned."

On the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, security forces fired shots into the air burst of hundreds who had gathered outside a housing complex for foreigners to dispel. Furious demonstrators set fire to a tanker outside the complex on a main road that links the Afghan capital with the eastern city of Jalalabad.
"Death to America", the protesters chanted angrily and automatic weapons fire was heard, but it was unclear whether the Afghan security forces and the guards fired.
The city police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi appeared on the scene with hundreds of reinforcements in an effort to bring the crowd under control.
A doctor from Kabul Wazir Akbar Khan hospital said at least 10 demonstrators were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. The doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media said that one of the wounded were in critical condition.
Several miles away, hundreds were gathered outside Camp Phoenix, a U.S. base and threw stones at the plant, said the spokesman for the provincial police of Kabul Ashmatullah Stanekzai. There were reports that shots were heard near Camp Phoenix.
Stanekzai said, another small and peaceful demonstration of just over 100 people were held in western Kabul, near the university in the capital.
Police in the east of Jalalabad, said that thousands of collected parts of the city to protest against the incident.
The U.S. military apologized Tuesday in memory of books including Koran, which had been pulled from the shelves of a library prison at Bagram Air Base near because she and extremist messages that included enrollment.
The White House was taken over later and military officials said the fire was an accident.
"We have to apologize for the Afghan people and to such possible actions in the strongest disapproval," they said in a statement quoted by the Embassy on Twitter. "" This is not the greatest respect for our army to the religious practices of the Afghan people. "
U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into the incident, he was "not intentional in any way."
"These kind of incidents when they occur in the fastest and most appropriate way to resolve possible," Allen said in a statement quoted by the Embassy on Twitter. "We were on the side of Afghans die for a long time, because we believe in them, and we wish them a bright future."
Allen thanked the Afghan people "who helped us the error, and worked with us do not take immediate remedial action."
"We are deeply investigate the incident and take action to ensure that this does not happen again," he said in a statement.
The incident stirred up anti-foreigner who is already on the rise after nearly a decade of wars in Afghanistan and fueled the arguments of the Afghans that foreign troops are not respectful of their culture or religion to believe in Islam.
Zahed Ahmad Zaki, head of the District Council, said U.S. military took him to a safe burn pit at the base, where 60 to 70 pounds, including Korans were. The books of inmates were once used to be at the base, he said.
"Some people have all been burned. Some were half burned," Zahed, adding he did not know exactly how many Koran, the Muslim holy book were burned.
Zahed said five Afghans working on the pit told him that religious books in the garbage that was carrying the two soldiers in the US-led coalition troops in the pit in a truck Monday night. When they realized the books were in the trash, workers are working to recover, he said.
"The workers there showed me how their fingers were burned when they took the books to the fire," he said.
The Afghan National Army, Gen. Abdul Jalil Rahimi, the military commander of a coordination office in the province, said he and other officials, the protesters are trying to tribal elders and clerics met to soothe their emotional reaction. "The protesters were very upset and did not want to end their protest," he said.
One protester, Mohammad Hakim, said that if U.S. troops can not bring peace to Afghanistan, they should go home.
"You should take Afghanistan disrespect for our religion, to leave our faith," said Hakim. "You have to leave, and if the next time they disrespect our religion, we will continue our holy Koran, religious faith and defend to the last drop of blood left in our bodies."
Later, however, that the protesters ended the rally and said they would send 20 representatives of the group in Kabul to discuss with Afghan parliamentarians and a meeting with President Hamid Karzai, said Rahimi.
The Office of the Governor of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan has the incident as "a scandalous way of some stupid people."
In April 2011, Afghans protest the fatal burning of a Koran by a pastor in Florida, when armed men broke into the crowd in a UN building in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and killed three guards and four Nepalese employees.