MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“Thousands of people took to the streets in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday to protest the killing of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, burning an effigy of Barack Obama and calling for the killer to be tried in Afghanistan.

Demonstrators in the city of Jalalabad chanted ‘Death to America — Death to Obama’ and blocked the main highway to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported.

‘Jihad (holy war) is the only way to get the invading Americans out of Afghanistan,’ one banner read, according to the newspaper.

The demonstrators also demanded that President Hamid Karzai reject plans to sign a strategic pact with Washington that would allow U.S. advisers and possibly special forces to remain beyond a 2014 deadline for foreign combat troops to leave Afghanistan.” Read more.

One dead after militants attack Afghan delegation at site of killing spree, Taliban vows to behead those responsible – “Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The gunfire killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation, said Gen. Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visit took place. Another Afghan soldier and a military prosecutor were wounded in the attack, he said. The attack in Balandi village came as the Taliban vowed to kill and behead those responsible for the 16 Afghan civilians killed Sunday.” Read more.