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| 2013-10-13 |
[An Nahar] 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... and U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Saturday that talks on the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan were stuck on the key issue of U.S. troop immunity. Kerry extended his stay in Kabul to try to thrash out a long-delayed security pact that would allow between 5,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to fight al-Qaeda remnants and train the national army. But he said that a major sticking point in efforts to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) was the issue of which country would try any U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan. "One issue that is outstanding (is) the issue of jurisdiction," he said, rejecting the widely-used term "immunity" because accused U.S. troops would still stand trial in America. "We need to say that if the issue cannot be resolved, unfortunately there cannot be a bilateral security agreement." |
| Posted by:Fred |