Afghan war protest targets Nato meet in Scotland

Around 1,000 people held a demonstration against the war in Afghanistan Saturday as Nato's parliamentary assembly met in Edinburgh. The protest came on the second day of the meeting, which brings together lawmakers from all 28 member states of Nato and is expected to discuss the conflict. Among those addressing the demonstration was Joan Humphreys, whose grandson, a British soldier, was killed in Afghanistan in August.
"I would like the troops to come home walking - not on stretchers or in body bags," she said. John Cannell, of the Stop the War Coalition, which helped to organise the march, added: "The only solution has to be a political one, but we need the troops out now to make the space for that political solution." Protestors were also calling for Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent to be scrapped.