Protests Spread to Afghanistan, Indonesia

Muslim rage over the Innocence of Muslims continues to spread. A protest by some 300 people a few miles from the US embassy in Kabul turned violent today, leaving 15 police injured, CNN reports. In Indonesia, meanwhile, at least 11 police officers and a protester were hurt as protesters threw rocks and molotov cocktails at Jakarta's US embassy. Elsewhere:

• Another protester was killed in Pakistan today, as police fired warning shots at a student-organized protest in the country's northwest tribal region. That follows the death of a protester in Karachi yesterday.

• US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice disagreed with the Libyan president's assertion yesterday that the embassy attack there was planned. Instead, the Benghazi protest seemed to be a copycat of Cairo demonstrations that "seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists."
• Yemen today moved to assure people that the roughly 50 US marines deployed in the wake of the embassy attack there won't be staying long. "They are (here) temporarily for a limited amount of time," Yemen's president told Reuters.
• The New York Times, meanwhile, has a piece today delving into the cultural divide fueling the protests. At issue: Free speech is an alien concept to some in the Arab world; indeed, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement last week indicating that they believed the West had laws against denying the Holocaust.

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