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Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Karzai condemns NATO airstrike
2013-09-09
[Al Ahram] 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...
 on Sunday condemned a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
 Arclight airstrike in the east of the country that he said left 16 civilians dead, according to a statement from his office. "Hamid Karzai considers attacking women and kiddies against all accepted international norms and strongly condemns it," the statement said after the Arclight airstrike Saturday in Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
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