Posted on 06/02/2014 12:55:31 PM PDT by blueplum
Kabul (Reuters) - The Afghan president is angry at being kept in the dark over a deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for a captured U.S. soldier, and accuses Washington of failing to back a peace plan for the war-torn country, a senior source said on Monday.
The five prisoners were flown to Qatar on Sunday as part of a secret agreement to release Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who left Afghanistan for Germany on the same day. :snip: "The president is now even more distrustful of U.S. intentions in the country," said the source close to President Hamid Karzai's palace in Kabul, who declined to be identified.
"He is asking: How come the prisoner exchange worked out so well, when the Afghan peace process failed to make any significant progress?"
Karzai has backed peace talks with the hardline Islamist Taliban movement, which ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 and has fought a bloody insurgency since then against U.S.-led forces in the country.
But they have come to little so far, and the group moved swiftly to dash hopes that the prisoner swap would rekindle negotiations between it and the Afghan government.
"It won't help the peace process in any way, because we don't believe in the peace process," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Sunday.
The official close to the palace also said Karzai was worried about further deals being cut without his knowledge.
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This guy is the biggest goofup I have ever seen. I don’t know who voted for him, but anybody who did shouldn’t be voting. They have no idea what is going on.
A man who would make a monumental deal in another country without informing the president of that country is a clown.
Somebody has to protect the opium poppies...
good point
No cut for Korzis i s a good way to work, in general.
Why do I have this strange feeling that by mid-November, 2016, the Taliban will once again be running Afghanistan with the not so secret support of Obama.
Of course he is worried… some of those guys who are (or could be) released run the gamut from dangerous to outright killers who would take down Karzai himself.
Worse then that. We now have to assume the CIA station chief in Afghanistan was against this prisoner swap as Karzi was against the prisoner swap. Thus, the criminally insane sociopaths running the US, setup their own CIA station chief intentionally to silence his internal dissent about the swap.
Karzai doesn’t need to be too upset. He kept congress in the dark, too.
Everyone who voted for him should be forced to wear a jacket with a big “O” on the back. Would that be too much like the Nazis?
Don’t fret Hamid, you in the same boat with the highest ranking Congressional Republicans and the great unwashed American people. Go put some more cash in your Swiss Bank accounts and confirm your one way tickets out.
Thanks blueplum.
> [the useless Hamid] Karzai has backed peace talks with the hardline Islamist Taliban movement... “It won’t help the peace process in any way, because we don’t believe in the peace process,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Sunday.
He’s just mad we didn’t buy is agreement.
I’m also curious as to how much was paid to ransom him
Everything you said about Karzai applies to Obama. Every single point.
I wonder if leaking the CIA station chief’s ID was part of the deal with the Haqqanis
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