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Afghanistan
Kabul Considers Action against Int'l Crisis Group over 'Bias'
2012-11-06
[An Nahar] Afghanistan is considering action against the International Crisis Group, with officials on Monday accusing the respected think-tank of bias in its reporting on the troubled nation.

An analysis by the Brussels-based ICG last month said the Kabul government could collapse after the withdrawal of 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...
troops in 2014, particularly if presidential elections that year are fraudulent.

Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... 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 Pashtun face 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...
's senior front man Aimal Faizi hit back Monday, telling Agence La Belle France Presse: "The ICG reports and activities have been politically motivated."

"The government is now in the process of assessing the ICG's operations in the country," he added.

"It is detrimental to Afghanistan's national interests and no country will allow such activities by a foreign organization," he said, without elaborating.

President Karzai's re-election in 2009 was marred by allegations of widespread voting irregularities, while parliamentary polls a year later were also mired in controversy over fraud and vote rigging.

The ICG analysis characterized Karzai as apparently being motivated by his desire to cling to power rather than to work for his country's interests.

Foreign ministry front man Janan Mosazai also said Kabul was investigating the group.

"The Afghan government is currently doing an assessment of the ICG's work in Afghanistan, and will take an appropriate decision about its future work based on this assessment," he said.

The author of the report, the ICG's senior Afghanistan analyst, Candace Rondeaux, could not immediately be contacted for comment.
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