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| Karzai warns insurgent attacks on Afghan forces increasing |
| 2012-06-22 |
[Tolo News] 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... warned Thursday that attacks against local police and soldiers were increasing as they prepare to take responsibility for security when NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... combat troops leave in 2014. His remarks are likely to heighten doubts about the Afghans' ability to take over when the bulk of 130,000 US-led combat troops withdraw. Karzai was speaking to a special session of parliament a day after a Taliban suicide kaboom on a joint Afghan-US patrol that killed 21 people in the east, close to the Pak border. "I have noticed that these days, in the past one, two or three months, attacks on our soldiers, police and intelligence officers have increased," Karzai said. "Every day we have at least 20 to 25 casualties, every day at least 20 to 25 of our youths are making the sacrifice for this country and are being killed." Taliban-led gunnies typically deployed jacket wallahs and roadside kabooms in the ten-year insurgency since being toppled from power by the 2001 US-led invasion. This week alone bully boyz have staged three major suicide attacks on Afghan-NATO military posts in the troubled east and south of the country. Karzai admitted his government and its Western allies had failed to bring peace to Afghanistan, which has suffered almost continuous conflict for the past three decades. Since the Taliban were tossed, Afghanistan has been flooded with billions of dollars in Western aid, but the country is awash with graft, and Karzai admitted the problem was worse than ever. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 ..."attacks on our soldiers, police and intelligence officers have increased," Karzai said. Did they promised to attack only infidels, Hamid? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2012-06-22 05:44 |