On a late Monday night, Afghan workers spotted copies of the Qur’an which were taken from prisoners at the airbase that were going to be incinerated.  A crowd of about 3,000 people gathered outside the Bagram military airbase. Police were stationed on roads leading to the base to turn back protestors alleged General Muhammad Akram Bekzad, who is Parwan province’s police chief. At least 12 civilians were injured by rubber bullets that were fired by coalition soldiers. These were shot to control protests, said Haji Abdul Aziz, the police chief of the Bagram distric. Four Afghans were killed.

As the news of this event spread, the top U.S. and NATO general in Afghanistan apologized and promised an inquiry in an attempt to spread the outrage. This is not the first time something like this has happened; when the U.S. cleric Terry Jones burned a copy of the Qur’an last year, deadly protests were triggered across Afghanistan. As airbase worker Rahmatullah Nazari said, “I will decide whether to go back to my job when I get the results of the investigation.”

In the heat of these debates, two American officers were killed. NATO recalled all of the staff from Afghanistan and said they would be searching for the people responsible.  Afghan’s Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the shooting. In a statement, Abdul Rahman was named the shooter. In other places, police met similar resistance, as rocks were thrown at them as well as at government buildings and a United Nations office.

Obama said that the burnings were a mistake, but Newt Gingrich appeared on CNN and said that Obama should not be the one to be apologizing. He said to Piers Morgan that Afghanistan have their own apology to make before the U.S. apologizes. What really ticked him off was the fact that the United State had been doing a lot of apologizing over the burning of text while Afghanistan issued no apology over the death of the two Americans.