Protests at U.S. embassies in Middle East, South Asia, Great Britain, Africa over anti-Islam film

Protests at U.S. embassies in Middle East, South Asia, Africa over anti-Islam film

CAIRO (AP) ? Here?s a look at protests across the Middle East and elsewhere on Friday, four days after crowds angry over an anti-Muslim film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad began assaulting a string of U.S. embassies in the region.

LEBANON

Security forces opened fire in the northeastern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing one person after a crowd angry over the film set fire to a KFC and a Hardee?s restaurant. About 25 people were wounded in the melee, including 18 policemen who were hit with stones and glass.

IRAN

Thousands shouted ?Death to America? and ?Death to Israel? in Tehran in a demonstration after Friday prayers. Some burned the American and Israeli flags. State TV says similar protests were held in other Iranian cities.

IRAQ

Hundreds demonstrated in Baghdad?s northern Sunni neighborhood of Azamaiyah, some shouting: ?No, no America! No, no to Israel,? and, ?We are ready to sacrifice ourselves for our Prophet.? Dozens also marched in Baghdad?s poor Sadr City district. In the southern city of Basra, about 1,000 took to the streets and burned the American and Israeli flags. One banner said: ?Freedom doesn?t mean offending two billion Muslims.?

ISRAEL

The Israeli police say about 400 people marched toward the U.S. consulate in east Jerusalem in protest over the prophet film. Demonstrators threw bottles and stones at police, who responded by firing stun grenades. Four protesters were arrested and the crowd was prevented from reaching the U.S. consulate.

WEST BANK

In the city of Nablus, about 200 people demonstrated against the film as Muslim clerics throughout the territory preached against it in Friday sermons.

SYRIA

About 200 protesters waved the Syrian flag and shouted anti-American slogans outside the long-closed U.S. Embassy in Damascus. The crowd held banners saying: ?He who curses the Prophet doesn?t seek democracy? and ?a nation whose Prophet is Muhammad, would never kneel down.? The U.S. embassy has been closed since February because of the country?s bloody conflict that has killed about 23,000 people.

AFGHANISTAN

About 1,500 protested outside the eastern city of Jalalabad, shouting ?Death to America? and urging President Hamid Karzai to sever relations with the U.S.

TURKEY

Hundreds of people gathered in Istanbul?s Beyazit Square to protest the prophet film. The protest was organized by Turkey?s main Islamist political party, Saadet.

BANGLADESH

Some 5,000 hardline Muslims marched in the streets of the capital, Dhaka, after Friday prayers, burning U.S. and Israeli flags and calling for the death of the filmmaker. Police prevented them from marching toward the U.S. Embassy several miles away.

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