Probly the best hot meal they've had for weeks.

Times, UK

Muslims eat the stars and stripes

FROM MICHAEL DYNES IN PESHAWAR

FRENZIED protesters in Peshawar set fire to the American flag, then ripped it apart and ate the smouldering remnants yesterday in the latest of a series of demonstrations to erupt in the turbulent North West Frontier Province.

Chanting “Death to America — long live Osama,” supporters of Jamit Ulema Islam, one of the region’s biggest pro-Taleban parties, gathered at the central mosque in the city’s ancient Namak Mandi commercial district, warning of “terrible consequences” if Pakistan supported US retaliatory strikes against Afghanistan.

The rally coincided with reports from refugees of large numbers of Taleban fighters massing on the Pakistan’s western border near Jalalabad, and the explosion of a powerful bomb on the border with India in which six people were killed and scores injured, adding to the mounting tension and anxiety that is sweeping the lawless province.

Bin Laden is thought to have a key base in the Hada Farms region on the western edge of Jalalabad, and a network of camps used by Arab volunteers in his al-Qaeda terror network lies close to the city. The region is one of a series seen by local Afghans as potential US targets.

Hundreds of armed police and security forces personnel, carrying tear gas grenades, batons and riot shields, lined the streets as the demonstrators ran through the old city shouting: “The US must die.”

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2001