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| Pakistan condemns assassination of Karzai's brother |
| 2011-07-13 |
[Dawn] Pakistain condemned the killing on Tuesday of Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai's ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... younger brother as "an act of cowardice". Snicker-snicker... Although relations between the neighbours have been strained by accusations over cross-border attacks in recent weeks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... telephoned Karzai to express his condolences. Chortle-chortle... Gilani's office said he expressed "shock and grief" over Ahmed Wali Karzai's liquidation. The younger Karzai, who was long accused of involvement in corruption and Afghanistan's drugs trade, was a key ally of the president and US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces in the south of the country, the headquarters of a Taliban insurgency. Pakistain was a key ally of the Afghan Taliban regime until siding with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks and ultimately implanted Karzai in power. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > TALIBAN CLAIM ASSASSINATION OF KARZAI BROTHER. Well there ya go. BURMA is the Non-Muslim, Warlordic "other End" of the Drug/Opium Crescent, the "other Afghanistan" thats also going Nukulaar. Its one of those countries that, like post-Soviet Afghanistan = post-9-11 AFPAK, is coming back to haunt Washington for its lack of attention. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-13 22:54 |
| #5 I find it interesting that StrategyPage claims that Afghanistan's share of the heroin market has recently dropped below 80%, with Burma increasing their share to 12%. The writer's explanation for this is a little incoherent (their people have clearly been hired for their knowledge and analytical skills rather than raw writing talent... sort of an anti-New York Times), but he seems to be suggesting that the Surge made things too uncomfortable for the usual cozy protection arrangement. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-13 18:41 |
| #4 Well, there's gotta be some reason why all those NATO troops haven't made any attempt to eradicate the poppy crop. They'd do it if they got the order but they haven't gotten the order, have they? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-13 12:06 |
| #3 You nailed it de Medici. May tens of thousands more follow him into eternity. (I'm glad he's dead poster still around?) |
| Posted by: Besoeker on the road again 2011-07-13 07:52 |
| #2 One has to remember that for all the Poppy Fields in Kandahar Province..all those red poppies blowing in the bright breezes...it all has to be harvested and trucked to be PROCESSED in ( wait for it ) PAKISTAN. That's where the Heroin Processing factories ARE. Now, If Karzai's little brother was in charge of Karzai getting HIS cut of all that transport, protection, crop management, tools and seed...a little dip of the beak on just about every motion in the entire sweeping dope economy...then WHO would want Karzai's little sibling to take a little too long in the john? The taliban might want Karzai's junior to bite one if they wanted to get control in their hands and out of his. "Its only good business." as old Uncle Tattaglia once observed. Nothing personal, Mikey. Get in the car. And Gilani who is a big man down south and is known as the "Gucci Muj", he might just benefit from his Dari friends... after all they drive the trucks. What is apparent is that no one will really MISS Karzai's younger brother. Maybe, not even Karzai...were they ever really that close. ( one has to ask ). His name was Achmed Wali...well there you have it, folks. Another dead Moslem, a brief glitch in the dope dividey-uppy, and we are back to normal in the Religion of Peace. Hey, you know WHERE most of that dope GOES? Iran. One in every sixteen Iranians does the "stuff". And guess who makes sure they get all the dope they need? Now dont be shocked...it pays for our drones and a lot of informers for the CIA. Big sick circle and everybody gets a sniff and a smoke. Hell yass, y'all, and they give big parties in Georgetown on the Potomac. How do you think the real world works, Chuckie ? |
| Posted by: de Medici 2011-07-13 05:27 |
| #1 So nobody in the ISI or anything bribed or otherwise seduced Mr. Karzai the Younger's longtime clansman cum bodyguard to quietly take Mr. Karzai out of the room and shoot him? How un-byzantine of them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-13 00:40 |