After a weekend of deadly riots in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus issued a statement on Sunday publicly condemning the Quran burning that sparked the unrest. And in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in the country admitted that the burning has created an “additional serious security challenge.”Seven U.N. workers and four Afghans were killed in Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday, when a demonstration against the burning of a Quran by American pastors turned violent. The Associated Press reports that at least nine more people were killed in protests in Kandahar on Saturday, and two more deaths were reported there on Sunday. Sunday protests in Jalalabad were described by the AP as “largely” peaceful.
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