Afghan Students Chant "Death to Bush", "Death to Karzai."

May 8 (EIRNS)--More than 1,000 Afghan students took to the streets of Jalalabad last week for four days in a row, shouting anti-American protests over civilians allegedly killed by coalition troops, witnesses told AFP. The angry protestors shouted 'Death to (George W.) Bush, death to (President Hamid) Karzai' in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, where six people were killed in a US-led raid the weekend before. Hundreds of people demonstrated also in Herat's Shindand district on May 1, saying scores of civilians were killed in the US-led operation over that weekend.

`'The Americans must leave Afghanistan because they don't respect Afghanistan," said one protester. Why are they (Karzai and Bush) not accounting for the blood of innocent people who are being killed by the Americans on our soil," said another student who declined to be named.

The protest began a day after Afghan authorities said that some 30 civilians were among scores of Taliban-linked militants killed during operations by US-led and Afghan forces in the western province of Herat.