Karzai orders probe into deadly protest

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered his government to investigate deadly Quran-burning protests that killed up to two dozen people, including seven foreign UN staff, his spokesman said yesterday.
Angry protests over the burning of a Quran by a Florida pastor, Terry Jones began in the relatively peaceful northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Seven members of the UN mission to the war-torn nation were killed when the protesters attacked the world body's office. A Norwegian, a Swede, a Romanian and four Nepalese guards were among the dead.
Five Afghan protesters were also killed in clashes with police.
A dozen other people were killed in two days of violent protests in the southern city of Kandahar.