[Tolo News] In his weekly radio address, 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...
reaffirmed his stance that a security pact with Washington would be pointless if it did not pave the way for sustainable "peace and security" in Afghanistan. Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia...
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...
has reasserted his own expectations surrounding the issue of troops immunity.
The statements from Karzai and Kerry come a week after the U.S. Secretary of State made an unexpected trip to Kabul to hash out some of the still contested provisions of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Washington and Kabul intended to outline American involvement in Afghan national security after the 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...
combat mission ends in 2014. Negotiations between the two men lasted 28 grueling hours before theyannounced that they had come to accord on most of the pact.
"The security agreement is the only option that could restore peace and security in Afghanistan, and if the Afghan people aren't protected and security isn't maintained then the security agreement loses its effect and has no importance," said President Karzai in his weekly radio address on Thursday night.
The Afghanistan's Caped President went on to announce that the matter of U.S. troop immunity from the Afghan judicial system would be debated and decided on by the members of the Loya Jirga he plans to convene within a matter of weeks.
"In our recent negotiations with the U.S., we also discussed another important topic, and it was the topic of immunity for U.S. troops in Afghanistan," explained Karzai. "The decision in this respect is beyond the capacity of Afghan government, and only the Afghan people maintain the authority to decide on it, and the Loya Jirga reflects the will of the Afghan people."