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| Karzai Doubts West: Reports |
| 2010-06-14 |
| [Quqnoos] The Afghan President accused the U.S. of being involved in the Taliban's attack on the Afghan jirga. The New York Times quoted a prominent Afghan official with knowledge of the meeting between President Karzai, the Afghan Intelligence Chief and Interior Minister that President Karzai had called link between the Taliban and the incident baseless. "The president did not show any interest in the evidence -- none. He treated it like a piece of dirt," the New York Times quoted the former director of the Afghan intelligence service, Amrullah Saleh, as saying. The remarks come as the president's office rejected all of the claims and called them no more than a claim. An article published by the New York Times under the title "Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban" quoted from a top Afghan official, who declined to give his name, that Mr. Karzai suggested in the meeting that it might have been the Americans who carried out the attack. "We have no idea if the individual who has been quoted is real or not, and we totally reject these claims," said the deputy spokesman for the Afghan president, Hamed Elmi. Several times, President Karzai has held secret talks with the Taliban without informing the NATO and the US outside Afghanistan, according to a former Afghan official who spoke to the New York Times. Calling it groundless, the president's office has also denied this claim. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 @ #2 bulldog - Sadly, your analysis is correct. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-06-14 14:34 |
| #2 He would be crazy not to: NATO has effectively said it'll start coming out of Afghanistan in a year, whether the Taliban are defeated or not. The Taliban will almost certainly still be waiting to make a move when that happens. Obama's given Karzai little option but to side with, if not the stronger horse, then the one with more stamina. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2010-06-14 13:36 |
| #1 That headline is backwards. Reports: West Doubts Karzai |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-06-14 09:28 |