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Kabul Demands Control of Afghan Militia in Three Months
 [An Nahar] 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... on Thursday gave U.S.-led foreign forces three months to transfer control over armed Afghan militias to his government, following allegations of abuses by the militiamen. The move appeared to be a further sign of Kabul's determination to take control of the 11-year war against the Taliban, and in particular of militias reportedly trained by the Americans and operating without Kabul's control. With the bulk of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... 's 100,000 combat soldiers due to leave next year, Karzai has several times sought to set the pace of the transition to full Afghan government control, scheduled by the end of 2014. A presidential order released by the Afghan council of ministers said Karzai had appointed a delegation assigned "to ask coalition forces to hand over within three months the mentioned gangs to Afghan security institutions". It said security chiefs decided on February 17 "to identify and merge those gangs which have been established by international coalition forces and are operating out of the structure of Afghanistan's national security institutions". Posted by: Fred 2013-03-01 |
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