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| Afghanistan |
| HPC Questions U.S. Presence, Calls Bin Laden 'Martyr' |
| 2014-02-14 |
| [Tolo News] Maulavi Shahzada Shahid, a front man to the Afghan High Peace Council (HPC), said on Thursday that the main cause of war in the region is the interference and presence of foreign forces. The comments come just a few days after a number of Afghan politicians expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s with pro-Taliban statements being made by government officials. The HPC front man called the former leader of Al-Qaeda, the late the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... , a martyr and criticized the presence U.S. forces in Afghanistan. "The U.S. is selfish and arrogant and says that no one can stand before her technology," Maulavi Shazada Shahid said. "The U.S. acts in a manner that it can do whatever it wants, or influence someone, it thinks always to establish a system and change a regime, but these approaches pursued by the U.S. have led to insecurity in the region," he continued. "The U.S. committed crimes in Iraq, the U.S. came under the pretext of Osama, you [the U.S.] martyred Osama and yet you are still here." This is the first time an Afghan government official has publically declared Osama bin Laden a martyr, and it has received quite a bit of blowback. "When the President of Afghanistan begins secret relations with the Taliban and releases prisoners and allows elements to enter in the Presidential Palace with fake documents and even delay signing of the agreement to make Taliban happy, it is natural that the individuals who are related to government circles or serve on the HPC will talk louder than the President on behalf of the Taliban," Parliament's Youth Affairs Chairman Naqibullah Fayeq said. Recent statements and actions from 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... , along with the most recent ones from the HPC front man, do not bode well for Kabul-Washington relations. Instead, they suggest Afghan leaders are looking to push the U.S. and its allies away while also ingrating themselves to violent Islamists in the region. |
| Posted by:Fred |