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.
There many of our finest who have spilled their blood in Afghanistan to keep the radical Muslims from making that land a haven and staging ground for terrorist attacks against the US once again.
Within short time after the US departure it will return to a principal source anti-American attacks and terror, IMO!
Remember that the Russians backed the Northern Alliance against the Taliban.
The Taliban is essentially an operation aided and abetted and coordinated by Pakistan’s ISI, who also hid Osama for all those years. Pakistan is the enemy of both the US and a non-Taliban Afghanistan.
We’re on our way out. Not only that, but the State Department declared war on Karzai the day Obama came into the White House; they’ve been attacking him in public and holding talks with the Taliban behind his back all along.
So, since we are abandoning him to the Talibs, who are his allies? He has Iran on one side and Pakistan on the other, both a potential problem. Obama isn’t going to back him against either one. So that leaves India and Russia. And he can try and work a deal with China, but for now they’ve thrown in with Pakistan (and against India). So Russia is his big back door. Iran is the other neighbor that isn’t going away, so expect him to build his own relationship with them, especially since upper class Afghans speak Persian (Dari). Between Iran and Russia on the one hand, versus Pakistan on the other who is backing the Taliban and Al Qaeda, once we leave the country he has few choices.
They also were 'based' out of Florida, Germany, and Arizona. But, we didn't invade there. That is kinda the point of being a cell and such. But, .gov never learns that.
Illegals and others kill and harm more Americans than wot, but we didn't create a wot to fight it.
Osama bin Laden
They all end up as dog food, sooner or later.
We should pull out and let the Russians invade Afghanistan. Then the muzzies and the commies can bleed each other dry. Pass the popcorn.
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so now the big pic invade f ghanistan make it the biggest opium producing country in the world sacrifice thousands of American lives maintain that flow coinciding with the rise of opiate derivative drugs freely distributed to all ages of the US population now defunded defrauded making all the pill junkies go for the gold except ooops...it kills them...
in the last study it was apparent that the the last term POTUS ran up the debt near as much as the current POTUS which proves the VOTING populace is equally stupid not that that is edifying in any other way unless you are the keynote at a funeral
hear my laughter now when the taliban resumes control and makes Hitler’s death camps seem like a fairy tale
cause the LSM follows the money just as they did then WHEN THEY KNEW THE TRUTH
they will spout the same propaganda
to pajama boy
and i am buying it
which is the same thing as I AM PAYING FOR IT
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