Posted on 03/24/2014 11:08:18 AM PDT by AU72
Last week, Taliban militants stormed into the Serena Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing nine including children. The Serena was one of most heavily secured buildings in Kabul. The attack there follows many Taliban attacks on Afghan civilians and US forces, as well as Afghan forces attacks on American troops there.
But today, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai insists that “foreign intelligence agencies” are responsible for the Serena attack.
The Afghan government held foreign agencies of intelligence responsible for an attack against a luxury hotel in this city that left nine fatalities and various injured.
President Hamid Karzai’s management denied that groups of the political, social and military movement Taliban and Haqqani network were behind the attack.
Governmental sources said that the modus operandi did not match that of Afghanistan’s main groups of armed opposition.
“Foreign intelligence agencies” points to one of two likely targets — either Pakistan’s ISI or the US CIA. In January, Karzai aired his suspicions that the US was secretly instigating terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. He even published a list of a dozen attacks that he blamed on the US, while everyone else suspects the Taliban.
In what may be his final break with the US, Karzai is also siding with Russia over its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.
Afghanistan this weekend joined Syria and Venezuela and became the newest member of a select club of nations: those that have publicly backed the Russian annexation of Crimea.
Citing “the free will of the Crimean people,” the office of President Hamid Karzai said, “we respect the decision the people of Crimea took through a recent referendum that considers Crimea as part of the Russian Federation.”
The New York Times points out that Afghanistan maintains a historic claim to a swath of Pakistan, and that may be motivating Karzai to side with Russia. If that is Karzai’s motivation, it’s ominous, suggesting that Afghanistan is ready to side with Russia should a regional war break out, if it gets Moscow’s backing to re-take that contested region of Pakistan.
Karzai’s government was installed by the US after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, to depose its Taliban regime because it harbored al Qaeda. Karzai has enjoyed the benefits of American defense ever since. According to a review by ABC News, 2,176 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began.
Jimmuh Carter's feckless foreign policy invited the Soviet Union to go into Afghanistan. Now Obama blundering is inviting Russia back into the big game.
I would never vote for Obama, but if he were to use a drone on Karzai, I would be tempted to.
Is that a middle finger in bammys’ eye? lol
Evidently the Afghan leader knows a winner when he sees one.
We are coming for you Hamid. In fact we’ve already penetrated your inner circle.
Hoping to save his scrawny chicken neck from the Taliban when the U.S. pulls out.
“... Now Obama blundering is inviting Russia back into the big game.”
Except this time I don’t think that the Russians are interested. And I really have to wonder why we are any more. time to pack up and leave them to their own devices.
They are welcome to it.
I would be very surprised if the Russians *weren't* interested. The Pakistanis were using Taliban-run Afghanistan as a conduit to export jihad to the Central Asian stan's. If we leave Afghanistan, the Russians will fill the void. And that's not actually a bad thing, in my book, and a good reason to leave the country.
Look at the flowers Hamid.
Freeze Karzai’s bank account. He’ll come around.
” If we leave Afghanistan, the Russians will fill the void. ...”
The real problem is not the Taliban but the Saudi’s who are funding all of this. If you don’t have money you can’t export jihad and its been the Saudi’s that have been supplying the money. But if the Russians want to take over this pest hole then more power to them.
Karzai knows the U.S. Is going to leave him dangling in the wind. He has to cut a deal with the Taliban to share a good chunk of is embezzled wealth. The trick is knowing when to flee into-exile without tipping off the people who will be left holding the bag.
> But today, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai insists that “foreign intelligence agencies” are responsible for the Serena attack.
Reminds me of the simpletons who insisted that the nationwide Ukrainian rejection of Putin’s Russian puppet regime were all Soros-funded CIA-armed Nazis.
He would use a Drone on you before Karzai.
Golly, if the Taliban take over where are we going to get our smack from????
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