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| Hagel, Karzai Press Conference in Kabul Cancelled |
| 2013-03-10 |
| U.S. officials say security concerns forced the cancellation of a scheduled news conference Sunday in Kabul with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Authorities did not elaborate on the security issues, but a day earlier, two suicide bombings -- one in Kabul and the other in Khost -- killed 19 people. The bombing in Kabul targeted the Afghan Defense Ministry as Hagel was visiting the capital. The press conference cancellation is the latest event to mark Hagel's first visit to Afghanistan as the new Pentagon chief. Earlier Sunday, President Karzai accused the Taliban of being "at the service of America" by using attacks like the ones on Saturday to frighten Afghans into wanting foreign forces to remain in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 deadline. The top U.S. general in Afghanistan General Joseph Dunford sharply rebuked the president's comments by saying, "we have fought too hard over the past 12 years... shed too much blood... to ever think that violence or instability would be to our advantage." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 The two of them canceled? Why? Were they short a stooge? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-03-10 18:09 |
| #3 So far so good Chuck. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-03-10 16:56 |
| #2 What are the odds that Hagel agreed with him? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-03-10 16:34 |
| #1 Karzai is unequalled in his drug induced deductive gymnastics. So the taliban is colluding with the US to keep the US forces in Afghanistan so they can have someone to "play" with? Oh please, I think I am getting a nose bleed just thinking about that line of logic... |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-10 15:32 |