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| Minister Accused of Abuse to Become Afghan Spy Chief |
| 2012-09-04 |
[An Nahar] 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... has nominated a cabinet minister to head the country's spy agency who has been accused of involvement in torture, drug-trafficking and corruption. Asadullah Khalid, the minister for borders and a one-time governor of the Taliban-troubled province of Kandahar, must be approved by a parliamentary vote before taking office as head of the National Directorate of Security. Ahead of his nomination by Karzai late Sunday, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW) urged the president not to appoint Khalid, accusing him of rights abuses and graft. "Numerous and credible reports allege that Asadullah Khalid, while governor of Kandahar province and in other posts, commanded forces that committed grave human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations," HRW said in a release. From 2005 to 2008 Khalid served as governor of Kandahar, where the Taliban insurgency against Karzai's government and its Western allies is most intense. "Credible allegations have been made that forces under his authority operated a private prison in Kandahar from 2005 to 2008 in which detainees were tortured, including with beatings and electric shocks," the rights watchdog wrote. "Allegations about abuses have also been made to U.N. and local Afghan human rights groups." "Khalid has also been accused of corruption and high-level involvement in Afghanistan's narcotics trade." Speaking on Afghan TV station Tolo News, Khalid denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! "I reject it. It's all baseless and it's an attempt to undermine Afghan personalities," he said. Khalid become controversial in 2008 when reports about his brutal handling of Afghan detainees transferred by Canadian troops -- then operating in Kandahar under NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -- to Afghan custody surfaced in Western media. "A dark cloud of serious accusations has hung over Asadullah Khalid's head for many years," Brad Adams, Asia director for HRW said. Appointing him as the head of the NDS "would send a disturbing message that the Afghan government has no intention of ending torture", Adams added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 wha? |
| Posted by: jay-dubya 2012-09-04 16:56 |
| #1 Taking up a collection for all of the people running background checks for Afghan troops. Will be purchasing fisher price farm wheel where you pull the string and it makes animal noises! Have to retool it for goats and giant spiders camels and yaks! Also will be introducing new bdu's for them as I don't want them sticking out with all of their tall dorkyness, trench coats and sunglasses! Got Holly Wood and the digital dorks working on some hunting orange ones they say the terrorists don't see color and I believe them! They our the United States best Allies! Also have something in the works for tapping string and soup cans and breaking the encryption got it from the Iranian Aliens man they got the good stuff! Good Luck! |
| Posted by: Knuckles Bumble4938 2012-09-04 15:50 |