[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Lebanon apologizes to Denmark after protesters torch mission
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Last update - 10:18 06/02/2006
Lebanon apologizes to Denmark after protesters torch mission
By News Agencies
Lebanon apologized Monday to Denmark after thousands of rampaging Muslim
demonstrators set fire to its diplomatic mission in Beirut in the most violent
of escalating worldwide rage by Muslims over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed .
Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said early Monday, after a late Sunday
emergency Cabinet meeting, that the government had unanimously "rejected and
condemned the acts of riots ... that harmed Lebanon's reputation and its
civilized image and the noble aim of the demonstration."
"The Cabinet apologizes to Denmark," Aridi said.
At least one person died, 30 were injured - half of them security
officials - and about 200 people were detained in the violence Sunday,
officials said. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said the arrested included 76
Syrians, 35 Palestinians and 38 Lebanese.
The interior minister, who is responsible for the police force that
failed to stop the protesters, submitted his resignation at the session. The
parliamentary opposition and even some Cabinet colleagues of Interior Minister
Hassan Sabei had demanded he step down, but the government appeared divided,
saying it only "took note" of the resignation offer.
The government also called for a speedy investigation.
The Beirut violence came a day after violent protests in neighboring
Syria, including the burning of the Danish mission there. The United States
accused the Syrian government of backing the protests in Lebanon and Syria.
Thousands also took to the streets Sunday elsewhere in the Muslim world
and parts of Europe, including some 3,000 Afghans who burned a Danish flag and
demanding that the editors at Jyllands-Posten - which originally published the
cartoons - be prosecuted for blasphemy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged
forgiveness.
In Malaysia, an editor at a small newspaper on remote Borneo Island
resigned for reprinting the caricatures and, in a statement Monday, the Sunday
Tribune newspaper apologized and expressed "profound regret over the
unauthorized publication."
The Islamic Army in Iraq, a key group in the insurgency fighting U.S.-led
and Iraqi forces, posted a second Internet statement Sunday calling for
violence against citizens of countries where the caricatures have been
published.
In Beirut, the attack on the Danish mission took on a sectarian dimension
in this mixed Muslim-Christian nation, which suffered a 1975-90 civil war.
Muslim extremists took over the streets in the Christian Ashrafieh neighborhood
where the Danish mission is located, wreaking havoc on property for about three
hours.
In the violence, protesters defied tear gas and water cannons to seize
the Danish mission and torch it, then rampage through the Christian
neighborhood.
Muslim clerics also denounced the violence Sunday, with some wading into
the mobs to try to stop the attacks.
Copenhagen had evacuated its diplomatic several days earlier in
anticipation of protests, Lebanese officials said, and during the attacks it
ordered its citizens to leave the country or stay indoors.
There was widespread criticism of the failure of the Lebanese security
forces, which appeared to lose control of the streets for about three hours.
But Sabei defended their actions, saying that authorities had tried to prevent
the protest from turning violent.
"Things got out of hand when elements that had infiltrated into the ranks
of the demonstrators broke through security shields," he told reporters after
submitting his resignation. "The one remaining option was an order to shoot,
but I was not prepared to order the troops to shoot Lebanese citizens."
Sabei, like other Lebanese politicians and Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid
Kabbani, spiritual leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims, suggested that Islamic
radicals had fanned the anger. Kabbani said outsiders among the protesters were
trying to "distort the image of Islam."
Legislator Michel Aoun, leader of an opposition coalition in Parliament,
referring to reports that Syrians were among the protesters, insisted the
government should have quelled the riot, and called for its resignation.
"We know that there were military units ready to intervene, but they were
not ordered to intervene," he told reporters.
The drawings - including one depicting the prophet wearing a turban
shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse - have caused Muslim fury worldwide.
Islamic law is interpreted to forbid any depictions of the Prophet Mohammed for
fear they could lead to idolatry.
The caricatures have since been republished in several European and New
Zealand newspapers as a statement on behalf of a free press.
Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he disapproves of
the caricatures, but insisted he cannot apologize on behalf of his country's
independent press.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a statement that the resentment
over the caricatures "cannot justify violence.
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