[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 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 dismissed the presence of al-Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan by calling it a "myth".
In an excerpt of an interview with Al Jazeera English's "UpFront", Karzai said "I don't know if Al Qaeda existed and I don't know if they exist [in Afghanistan]."
The interview will be aired on Friday the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000.
In response to a question regarding the former president's opinion on whether the former Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
plotted the attacks from Afghanistan, Karzai said, "That is what I have heard from our Western friends. That is what the Western media says."
He also added "I have not seen them and I've not had any report about them, any report that would indicate that Al Qaeda is operating in Afghanistan."
In other parts of the preview, Karzai said pointed to neighboring Pak snuffies for fomenting the rise of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
in Afghanistan.
Denying any Afghan link to the group, Karzai noted that those who have been captured have been found with ID cards.
He said "There is no element, there is no medium, for them to grow, or to rise, or to strengthen."