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...
said that the banned Pak Death Eater movement Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
orchestrated the bloodshed Tuesday on the Shiite holy day of Ashura.
Fifty-five people were killed in Kabul and another four in a similar attack in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
State Department front man Mark Toner said the United States did not know the full details of the attacks but that Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
The Heroine of Tuzlaand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Hamilton Fish...
had Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in mind when she urged Pakistain to act against faceless myrmidons during an October visit to Islamabad.
"It's precisely the kind of organization that the Secretary was trying to address when she went to Pakistain in calling for Pakistain to do more to combat this kind of Death Eater terrorist activity within its own borders," Toner told news hounds.
Pointing out that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been blamed for attacks in Pakistain as well, Toner said: "It's clearly a threat to both countries."
"It's just too important, the threat we face. There needs to be ongoing, sustained and even increased cooperation and coordination between Afghanistan (and) Pakistain and certainly with the international community," Toner said.
Toner also confirmed that one U.S. citizen was among the dead in Kabul. He said that the American was a civilian and not linked to the U.S. government but declined further details, saying the family had requested privacy.Karzai on Wednesday vowed to press Pakistain to take action against the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, potentially raising fresh tensions between the neighbors days after Pakistain boycotted an international conference on Afghanistan.
Pakistain asked Afghanistan to share any evidence pointing to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni Mohammedan Death Eater movement that was banned in 2001 by then military ruler Pervez
PervMusharraf.
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...