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.
Putin can have it....All I can tell him is “Better Luck this Time.”
I want to see what happens when indeed the US leaves him behind. Though I suspect strongly that he’ll coat-tail it with soebarkah giving the thumbs-up.
He’s not stupid, he can see who is the big dawg in that coming fight.
Same as always.
Why can’t the NSA find out where this clown stashed his stolen wealth and take it from him?I only hope the Islamist give him his just desserts.
PS to Obama: we have a southern border and an invasion going on, right here in the USA.
Crazy....How many years was Russia in Afghanistan??
Taliban is ISI.
Not one more drop of blood for these savages. You cannot “civilize” a country who does not want to be civilized. The Taliban want to keep their women in the stone age. The so-called “good guys” are content having their women live in the dark ages. America can keep tabs on any build up of terrorist cells and take action accordingly but it has to admit that the nation building that Bush foolishly embarked on has been an utter failure, no matter how well intentioned that goal may have been.
lol
Glad to see we got value received for all the lives and fortune we spent on that pile of Mideast wasteland. Afghanistan is now and always has been a place where “Great Nations Go to Die”.
It’s a Muslim country and always will be. “Elected” dictators at best. This “tribal” cr** is the problem. And all these people are nuts.
Bwahahahahahahaaahhhaaaaahahahahaha. How’s that Hope and Change working for ya?
Well, this isn’t really surprising. Karzai is certainly going to want to be polite to Putin, who is now more of a power in the area than we are.
But Karzai certainly isn’t about to cozy up to the Russians too far. The Soviets INVADED Afghanistan in Carter’s day, and killed thousands of inhabitants, bombing civilians indiscriminately.
And Russia has a long history of trying to invade and take over Afghanistan, to give it a path down to India and Southeast Asia. They did it in the time of Queen Victoria, and the Soviet Union tried to do it again. Russia is more of a threat than the U.S. could possibly be.
In other words, Karzai is being polite to the guy he fears.
Nobody fears Obama, needless to say. Except his own citizens, who fear what he intends to do to destroy our country and what remains of our Western civilization.
I doubt that we will ever know how many millions of dollars Karzai stole from the USA under the guise of ‘us helping them’.
It would be a great subject for a book. Too bad Tom Clancy is gone.
Karzai will be dead within the month when we leave.
Pull everything out, including aid. If JUST ONE terror attack comes from there that kills US citizens, then carpet bomb the whole damned country, Taliban, women, children and pets. Tell them this is the plan and do it if necessary...no threats, pure, swift action. Politically correct warfare has not worked since Korea. If you are going to have a war, then the reason should be enough to do this...otherwise there is no reason for a (politically correct) war. What you are seeing now with Karzai is the result of a “progressive” war. Nothing like making war on people but being careful not to hurt them. This is a sham and a shame.
Maybe, but I’ll bet Putin knows a ‘thousand miles of bad road’ when he sees it too...
LOL. Allying with Russia worked so well for Mohammed Najibullah...
Time to tell Hamid Buh bye.
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