Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) --Top condemned the burning of the Quran in the United States US officials in Afghanistan on Sunday, sparked the three days of protests in which more than 20 people died.
Burning of the Muslim holy book said "was it was intolerant disgusting, and it was very disrespectful and we condemn once again, most as possible," General David Petraeus, the head of the US led international forces in Afghanistan.
U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry said in a statement that respect American Quran "and all religious texts and regret any action that shows disrespect to any religious faith."
"At the same time, would like to, I stress, how many Afghan leaders who attack and kill innocent people as a response to the deplorable act of an individual is scandalous and an affront to human decency and would,", said the statement Eikenbery.
NATO Ambassador Mark Sedwill of the United Kingdom, meanwhile, the burning of a Quran with a small church of Florida called "an act of disrespect for the Muslim faith and all the people of the faith." "It is not the views of the people or Government of the Alliance."
The comments came at least 10 confrontations Sunday in Kandahar, Afghanistan between police and demonstrators throwing stones up to three people, including two police officers killed and injured.
Interior Ministry spokesman Zemaray Corel said a civilian and two policemen have been killed were, and 10 were injured.
The latest clashes in protest, according to Ahmad Wali Karzai, the provincial Council Chief who Afghan President Hamid Karzai is brother, and local elder Haji Abdul Malik has occurred. They said a demonstrator died and at least a dozen people were injured.
Karzai strongly condemned burn the Quran and asked "that the United States Senate and the House of representatives and the President this action... publicly condemn in very clear terms", his Office said in a statement.
President Barack Obama condemned the action, also on Saturday, while Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said the CBS program "face the nation" on Sunday, the Senate that "look" on the subject.
Reid stopped behind the Senate would on a resolution vote say add: ", whether we need hearings or not, I don't know."
He called burning by Pastor Terry Jones in Florida "a publicity GAG" the Quran and said: "I think people should understand, that follow what they do, under the guise of religion."
However denied President Karzai's brother, that the protests were a result of Quran Kandahar burn.
"The protests in the last two days in Kandahar have no connection to the Quran properties, burn public and Government in United States at all, but some people on prey were organized" Ahmad Wali Karzai told CNN, adding that he condemned the desecration of Islamic holy book.
Sunday, protesters in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, protested the burning of the Quran, blocking a major road leading to the capital Kabul, said as witnesses. The protesters Jalalabad were University students.
The National Assembly of the clergy on Sunday condemned both the Quran burn and the killing of civilians and UN personnel in the demonstrations.
At least nine people were killed and 73 in Kandahar on Saturday, and 12 people injured died Friday-including seven United Nations staff-when angry demonstrators stormed a UN complex in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan.
Obama extended condolences to the families and relatives of the victims in Mazar-e Sharif, but also complained about the burning of the Quran.
"The desecration of a holy text... is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry," he said on Saturday in a statement released by the White House. "However, is attacking and killing innocent people in reaction outrageous, and an affront to human decency and would."
Besmellah Blanford painting, Kandahar provincial member, said hundreds Saturday in Kandahar, the Quran burn to protest gathered.
"The enemies of peace in Afghanistan today killed and injured in Kandahar, our people", said a statement from the Office of the Governor of Kandahar.
Jones sparked international controversy on the ninth anniversary of 11 September, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last year as his Church in Gainesville, Florida, "International burn a Quran day" planned.
Jones Church not host a Quran burn on that day, but the Dove World Outreach Center website announced that a "International judges the Koran day" for last month set.
A picture of a burning book elsewhere showed on the website blog and read, "the event is over, the Qur'an was found guilty and a copy was burned in the building."
Condemnation of the UN Security Council for the Organization of the Islamic Conference generated the Mazari Sharif killings around the world, a 57-State group called the "collective voice of the Muslim world."
In a statement on Friday, Jones called the attack on the UN link "a very tragic and criminal action."
Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a spokesman for the police in Mazar-e Sharif, told reporters, a series of suspicious ", which may be the main organisers" were arrested.
The United Nations said, were the seven UN staff killed four Nepalese security forces and three civilians. A UN source said, the three civilians from Norway, Sweden and Romania.CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, Jay Mati and Tom Cohen on this report contributed
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