DETAILS OF KORAN BURNING

"... a dump truck escorted by a military vehicle drove up to the landfill at Bagram Air Base. Some of the 20 or so Afghans working in the landfill section said that two uniformed American soldiers, a man and a woman, began unloading bags of books out of the back of the truck and throwing them into a pit for incineration... the soldiers attempting to burn the texts were oblivious to the significance of what they were doing. They made no attempt to hide the fires, instead appearing to be routinely carrying out their duties...

"Afghans working in the landfill section said... "we attacked them with our yellow helmets, and tried to stop them, we rushed towards them and we threw our helmets at the vehicles... saying, “‘Don’t burn our holy book, we will give it to our mullahs!’”

"... protests began hours later, as Afghan workers who had witnessed the incident emerged from the base, one or two of them carrying damaged Korans hidden in their clothes..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/world/asia/nato-commander-apologizes-for-koran-disposal-in-afghanistan.html?_r=2