Raw Video: Afghans Protest Anti-Islam Film

Hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base as a demonstration against an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad turned violent in the Afghan capital early on Monday. (Sept. 17)

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