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2005-12-21 Afghanistan

Rabbani backs Qanooni for speaker of Afghan House

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Posted by Fred 2005-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Watch out for 'necks with shotguns in pickup trucks.

Posted by Buckminster Spemble1220 2005-12-21 09:08|| 2005-12-21 09:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The spin Im sure State would use would go as follows. We need to win over Pashtuns, esp moderate Wahabis, to undermine the continuing Taliban insurgency. Thats why we support Sayyaf, and that is why someone like Mohaqiq, whose people were subject to genocide by the Taliban, would take the same position. And its not like Qanooni is clean of religious extremists - Rabbani is pretty fundie himself - hes just been more firmly anti-Taliban cause he Tajik.

Alternatively, its just that this is the best deal we've managed to strike, and the actual deals and counter deals are SO complex it isnt possible to explain them on either ethnic or ideological terms.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-12-21 10:48|| 2005-12-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 We need to win over Pashtuns, esp moderate Wahabis

Is this a sub-set of the Mod Moslems?

Posted by Buckminster Spemble1220 2005-12-21 14:02|| 2005-12-21 14:02|| Front Page Top

#4 What LH said. Past a certain point it's important to remember that 50+% of democracy is deal cutting.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-12-21 14:05|| 2005-12-21 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 #1: Watch out for 'necks with shotguns in pickup trucks.

You called?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-12-21 14:11|| 2005-12-21 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Liberalhawk

A moderate wahabi is a contradiction. And wahabis are unwinnable. Now for a time after 9/11 I spent time reading traffic in Pashtoon websites and there are a number of Pahtuns who are nationalistic and see chariah as submission to Arabs (and theÃ¹m but also a good number of the "religious" Pashtoons see Arabs with contempt). These are the winnable Pashtoons not the Wahabis.

BTW it was through the wahabist Abou Sayaf who extended safe-conducts to the two Al Quaida who killed Massood. He swears, he was not their accomplice, only duped by them. Oh, and the Hazara have a blood feud with him.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-12-21 14:25|| 2005-12-21 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Arabic lessons:
Ab-dul = short form of slave of god

rasul = short form of messenger of god

sayyaf = sword

Abdul Rasul Sayyaf = Shit head

Posted by CaziFarkus 2005-12-21 17:08|| 2005-12-21 17:08|| Front Page Top

#8 :>

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-21 17:55|| 2005-12-21 17:55|| Front Page Top

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