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In letter to Karzai, Obama apologizes for Koran burning

More violence feared as protests rage for 3d day

By Alissa J. Rubin and Graham Bowley

 |  New York Times  

  February 24, 2012

President Obama apologized yesterday for the burning of Korans at the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan earlier this week as furious protests raged for a third day and a man wearing Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on coalition soldiers, killing two of them.

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