Afghanistan - At least 5
Somalia - 1
Two people died when protesters turned on the American airbase (mistake) at Bagram, Afghanistan.
And...Officials in Lebanon have now confirmed that a demonstrator died on Sunday after jumping from the third floor of the Danish embassy in Beirut to escape a fire!
Police and protesters clash in worldwide protests. In Thailand activists demand that the cartoonists be executed!
VIDEO HERE (BBC)
The Taliban and Al Qaeda are taking advantage of the Danish "Cartoon Row":
"Instigators in the Afghani crowd linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda also opened fire and one person had been killed and two wounded."
-IOL News-
3 are dead in Afghanistan in rioting over "Cartoons"!
Afghan protesters attack a building belonging to the Danish diplomatic mission in Kabul, Afghanistan February 6, 2006. Protests flared in several parts of Afghanistan on Monday against cartoons depicting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad and one person was killed and two wounded when shooting erupted in an eastern town, police said. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
BBC reports of death in Cartoon Protests as protesters tried to take over the local police station!
Two Afghans have been killed at a rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad, thought to be the first deaths in more than a week of protests.
Police in the eastern city of Mihtarlam fired on demonstrators after a police station came under attack, a government spokesman said.
More protests have been taking place around the world, following attacks on Danish embassies in Syria and Lebanon.Hundreds of people took part in the morning demonstration in Afghanistan's Laghman province, in a second day of protests in the city.
One person died at the scene, and another died in hospital in the nearby city of Jalalabad. Three people are thought to have been injured.
Demonstrators shouted "death to Denmark" and "death to France", and called for diplomats and soldiers from both countries to be kicked out of Afghanistan.
"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.
Thousands of people have also been demonstrating across Afghanistan.
Muslim protesters shout slogans as they run through a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Clashes in Afghanistan left one person dead and four others injured as protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad roiled across Asia on Monday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Afghan protesters shout slogans as they burn a Danish flag outside their embassy during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. (AP)
Religious clerics were among the crowd in the provincial capital Mihtarlam and made speeches demanding the closure of Denmark's embassy and the expulsion of Danish forces based in Afghanistan, Nangarhari said.
British police are now studying film of the london protests from the weekend after complaints that protesters were trying to incite murder... Well yeah!
VIDEO HERE
All Things Beautiful has a huge Riot Reaction Roundup.
Pajamas Media is carrying this story.
Previously:
Mideast Bloggers Join the Boycott of the Boycott
Muhammad's Pre-Danish Cartoon Career
Islamic Society of Denmark Used Fake Cartoons to Create Story!
Muslim World Rages On Over (4 month old & fake) Danish Cartoons
Muslims Rage, Donkeys Abused
Danish Imam Who Faked Cartoons, Linked to Terror, Cheered 9-11
Danish Embassy Torched in Syria!
Fury Builds, Flags and Buildings Torched at Muslim Protests
Saddam Hussein as Jesus
Muslims Continue Cartoon Rampage, US Threatened
Terror-Linked Danish Imam Behind Cartoon Riots Interviewed
3,000 Danes Protest for Peace and Love
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