The Australian government rejected 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...
's statement condemning a night raid in southern Uruzgan province which left two men dead.
Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith on Monday told news hounds that Karzai's statement on the military operation was wrong.
"The statement that has been issued by President Karzai's palace over the weekend in Kabul that this operation was not authorised is wrong," he said at a presser.
Karzai released a statement Saturday condemning the "unilateral military operation conducted by Australian troops" as a breach of the special operations agreement signed with 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...
in April which gave Afghans oversight of the controversial night raids.
It said the President has ordered an "all-out probe" into the operation that killed a 70-year old man Haji Raz Mohammad and his 30 year-old son Abdul Jalil.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Smith said there had been a "misunderstanding".
"That is not factually correct, and this point has been made strongly by Australia's ambassador to Afghanistan to palace and presidential officials," he said.
Smith confirmed that two men - who he said were gunnies - had been killed, and a third tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
during the raid.
The man in jug is suspected of having helped or sought to help the Afghan soldier, Hekmatullah, who shot at Australian troops last week, killing three and wounding two.
"The outcome of the operation has been the detention of an individual who is regarded not just as a leader of the insurgency in Uruzgan province but a person who has also sought to or actually assisted Hekmatullah in his escape," Smith told news hounds.