On Tuesday, more than 2,000 angry Afghans protested outside an American air base after they learned that copies of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, were burned in a pile of garbage at a sprawling U.S. military base north of Kabul.

The demonstrators shouted, “Die, die, foreigners!”, some fired rifles into the air, while threw rocks at the gate of the base.

Remnants of various tires which were set on fire at an entrance gate to the sprawling U.S. base, and as many as several hundred protesters were continuing chanting at another gate, but appeared to be dispersing.

The top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Gen. John Allen, advised that the burning of the Quran and other religious books was unintentional.

The accident stoked anti-foreign sentiment that already is on the rise after a decade of war in Afghanistan and fueled the arguments of Afghans who claim foreign troops are not respectful of their culture or religion.

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