Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
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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...
has delayed the release from jail of 88 suspected Taliban fighters
Legume, I suspect those are -- duck! -- Taliban fighters!
Inspector! How do you do it?
following complaints from the United States that they could return to the battlefield, officials said on Saturday.
The planned release had angered US military commanders and senators as Washington and Kabul edge closer to signing a long-delayed security pact allowing some American soldiers to stay in Afghanistan after 2014.
"Based on a recent president's order, we have started again reviewing the cases of the 88 prisoners," Abdul Shokur Dadras, a member of the Afghan Review Board, told AFP.
"The president has also ordered the security and intelligence agencies to check their backgrounds and cases to make sure justice is served."
US General Joseph Dunford, commander 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...
forces in Afghanistan, had lodged an official objection to the planned releases, saying they went against an agreement signed when Bagram was handed over.
Bagram jail was passed to Afghan control by the US in March after a public stand-off with Karzai, who has depicted the jail as a symbol of Afghanistan's efforts to regain its national illusory sovereignty.
The review board last year ordered the release of 648 Bagram prisoners, of whom 560 have been freed. The US had disputed the release of the final 88.
On a visit to Kabul on Thursday, influential Republican Senator
Lindsey Graham... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
, criticised the proposed release of bully boyz who he said had "blood on their hands".
He said the incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
men were responsible for over 60 NATO coalition and 57 Afghan deaths.
If the bilateral security agreement (BSA) is signed, several thousand US troops would remain in Afghanistan to provide training and assistance to the police and national army after the NATO combat mission ends in December.