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| Afghanistan |
| NATO warns Karzai aid at risk if no troop accord |
| 2013-12-03 |
| [Pak Daily Times] 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... officials warned 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... Monday that he must sign a US troop status accord or put at risk future military and development aid for his country. While planning continues for a post-2014 training and advisory mission after NATO ends combat operations, time is pressing and political and military practicalities mean the agreement must be signed soon, a senior NATO official said. If there is no Afghan-US accord, there is "no post-2014 mission" and likely all the funding and other commitments that go with it, the official told a briefing ahead of a two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting beginning Tuesday. Current NATO aid for Afghan armed forces runs at $4.1 billion (3 billion euros) a year, of which Kabul would only be able to raise $500 million, said the official who asked not to be named. The handling and "appropriate oversight" of aid is a key issue post-2014, given concerns over corruption, and the official said donors would be worried if there was no US and alliance presence to enure it was spent as intended. Without an agreement, funding "in theory could continue to be forthcoming...but in practice there must be a question whether donors would have the confidence to contribute," said the official. As for non-military development aid totalling some $4.0 billion a year, the official said this was "different but again donors' confidence" could be put in doubt without an accord. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I mean the aid could still go to the Free Afghan government in Paris amirite? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-12-03 16:13 |
| #2 Oh, and cc the Paks on that memo. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-12-03 14:58 |
| #1 Just tell Karzai that we don't give a rat's ass unless they try to pull another 9/11 in which case we will nuke them. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-12-03 14:57 |