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Afghanistan: Taliban take revenge on Dutch Soldiers after Anti-Islam film

The Taliban said today that two attacks on Dutch forces in Afghanistan were in retaliation for an anti-Islamic film by a Dutch politician.In a message on militant websites, its leadership announced reprisals against Dutch forces because “one of the members of the Dutch parliament produced a film that hurts Islam, and he published it with bad intentions”.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party, launched the anti-Koran film Fitna - Arabic for “strife” - on the internet last week.

The film urges Muslims to tear out “hate-filled” verses from the Koran, and starts and ends with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb under his turban, accompanied by the sound of ticking.

It was condemned by Muslim nations as a provocation, while Dutch Muslim leaders urged restraint. The Dutch government has said the film in no way reflects its own views.

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