Afghans protest U.S. church's plans to torch Koran

Afghans protest U.S. church's plans to torch Koran: More than a few hundred Afghans singing "Death to America" rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to complaint against an American church's plan to blaze a copy of the Koran on the centenary of the September 11 attacks.

The protester, mostly students from spiritual schools, meet exterior Kabul's Milad ul-Nabi mosque to censure plans by the Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the Afghan attacks against the United States.

"We call on America to stop damaging our Holy Koran," student Wahidullah Nori told Reuters. He said the street protests reproachful the church would continue "every day."

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10 troops, two other people killed in Afghanistan attacks

Ten troops -- including seven Americans -- were killed in Afghanistan on Monday, which made one of the deadliest days for coalition forces since they entered the country in 2001, officials said.

Also Monday, an American citizen and another person died in the attack on a police training center in Kandahar, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said.

The 10 slain troops included three NATO-led service members killed in the southern Afghanistan. Two of them died after a roadside bombing attack and another was killed in small arms fire, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

In eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an improvised explosive device killed five NATO troops, according to an ISAF news release.

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