KABUL ? A foreign civilian contractor was slightly wounded Sunday night in southern Afghanistan when an member of the Afghan security forces shot at a vehicle he believed was carrying NATO troops, coalition officials said Monday.
The suspect was captured by Afghan National Army soldiers after he shot at the vehicle driving inside Camp Garmser, a shared base in Helmand province, NATO said. A coalition spokesman declined to give the nationality of the injured civilian but said the wounds were minor. The attacker told interrogators he thought he was shooting at troops, the spokesman said. No further details on the incident were immediately released.
Over the weekend, six international troops ? four Americans and two British ? died after Afghan forces opened fire on them, the latest deaths in a spate of so-called insider attacks that have killed 51 NATO troops so far this year.
On Monday, about 500 Afghan demonstrators attacked police with stones and sticks while trying to storm a U.S. military base in Kabul, authorities said. It was the first violent anti-American protest in Afghanistan over a movie that Muslims worldwide have condemned as blasphemous.
Fifteen police were wounded, none seriously, Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammad Najib said. The protesters also destroyed a police vehicle and torched a police post, he said.
Some demonstrators said they turned against the police after being prevented from breaching the main gate and walls surrounding Camp Phoenix, a U.S. Army base in the eastern part of the capital.
?We wanted to attack Camp Phoenix to kill the Americans but were stopped by the Afghan police, and we had to attack the police,? said protester Ajmal Hotak, a 26-year-old shopkeeper.
Chanting ?Death to all infidel countries,? the demonstrators demanded punishment for those who made the anti-Muslim film. They also called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
North of the city, hundreds of other protesters gathered outside Bagram Airfield, the main U.S. military base in the country, and staged a peaceful demonstration, officials said.
Monday?s demonstration in Kabul came after clerics in mosques near Camp Phoenix urged residents after early-morning prayers to take to the streets and close the base, Hotak said.
By contrast, last week clerics across Afghanistan, at the behest of the government, exhorted people during Friday prayers to refrain from violence.
The violence at the early-morning march was minimal compared with past anti-Western demonstrations that have killed foreigners, including aid workers, and led to the deaths of dozens of protesters. In February, after U.S. soldiers at the Bagram base disposed of copies of the Koran by burning them, at least 20 demonstrators died over several days of protest.
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