U.S. military says Afghan bibles have been destroyed

2009/05/05 02:53:04 @Reuters: International News

KABUL (Reuters) - Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytizing, a military spokeswoman said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=vOBbOWYrA88:JZoFoSLddDU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=vOBbOWYrA88:JZoFoSLddDU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=vOBbOWYrA88:JZoFoSLddDU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=vOBbOWYrA88:JZoFoSLddDU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=vOBbOWYrA88:JZoFoSLddDU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/vOBbOWYrA88" height="1" width="1"/
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