[Dawn] President Barack ObamaI think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
and Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... 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...
on Friday reaffirmed plans for Afghan cops to take the lead in combat operations next year and assume full responsibility for security across Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the White House said.
"The two leaders also discussed President Karzai's recent reiteration of his longstanding concerns regarding night raids and house searches and recommitted to conclude ongoing negotiations on a memorandum of understanding to resolve those concerns," the White House said in a summary of phone call between the two leaders.
It said they also agreed to hold further discussion about Karzai's concerns about the presence of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
troops in Afghan villages. Tensions have ratcheted up since the killing of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier.