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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
He did not say this. He said this? The man with the Cabal.
The man that never looked for bin Laden while paying Pakistan to board and feed him. A Cabal doesn't come close to a Status of Forces Agreement.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (click here) said a "trained ape"
could get a status of forces agreement with Afghanistan, which the Obama
administration has yet to do. Rumsfeld on Monday night asserted
the Obama administration has engaged in "terrible" diplomacy and damaged
its relationship with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai....
Published on Thursday, October 20, 2005 by Inter Press Service by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - As top officials (click here) in the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office
await possible criminal indictments for their efforts to discredit a
whistleblower, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell,
Wednesday, accused a ''cabal'' led by Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald
Rumsfeld of hijacking U.S. foreign policy by circumventing or ignoring
formal decision-making channels.
Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Powell's chief of staff from 2001 to
2005 and when Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the
U.S. Armed Forces during the administration of former president George
H.W. Bush, also charged that, as national security adviser, Condoleezza
Rice was ''part of the problem'' by not ensuring that the policy-making
process was open to all relevant participants....
WASHINGTON March 12, 2014(AP) By DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press
...Legally, (click here) the 33,600 U.S. forces still deployed are covered by an
existing status-of-forces document that took effect shortly after 9/11
and the start of America's engagement in Afghanistan. The existing
agreement has no expiration date and prevents U.S. military personnel
from being prosecuted under Afghan law — a must-have for
status-of-forces agreements the U.S. signs with countries around the
world.
"Unless the Afghans or the United States cancel the existing SOFA, it
remains in effect," said retired Col. Manuel Supervielle, who was the
lead lawyer for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006, worked on
such agreements for U.S. troops stationed across the globe and advised
on the drafting of the current bilateral security agreement that Afghan
President Hamid Karzai says he won't sign....
There are real reasons why Karzai won't sign anything.
By Hamid Shalizi and Maria Golovnina
KABULTue Mar 25, 2014 11:21am EDT
(Reuters) - Taliban suicide bombers (click here) and gunmen attacked an election commission
office in Kabul next to the home of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani
on Tuesday, rattling nerves in the Afghan capital less than two weeks
before an important election.
Kabul is on high alert ahead of
the April 5 presidential vote that Taliban insurgents have threatened
to derail with a campaign of bombings and assassinations. Ghani,
a former World Bank official and frontrunner in the vote, was not at
home at the time of the attack, for which the Taliban claimed
responsibility....
Dr. Ghani has worked hand in hand with Karzai. What happened to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. I thought for sure he would be elected this time.
(Tasvir Afghanistan): Dr Ashraf Ghani (click here) grew up in Afghanistan before pursuing his education abroad. Like so many
Afghans, foreign invasion and civil war led to the persecution of his
family and forced him to remain in exile.
Whilst abroad he became a leading scholar of Political Science and
Anthropology and then worked at the World Bank where he learned the
tools of international development assistance.
Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001 he returned to Afghanistan
seeking to devote his unique skills and knowledge to the task of
rebuilding the country.
He advised interim President Karzai and served as the Finance Minister
in the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan until December 2004.
During his tenure as Finance Minister, he designed a package of reforms
and initiated several public investment programs that led to
significant improvements in the livelihoods of ordinary Afghans across
the country....
Exactly. If there is a copy of Karzai in leadership of the country the corruption will never end.
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:58am EDT
...Abdullah, (click here) a frontrunner in Afghanistan's April
5 election, promised to create jobs and stability, seeking to give a
sense of stability to Afghans worried about NATO withdrawing most of its
troops after 13 years of fighting a stubborn insurgency. The
election he is contesting should mark the first democratic transfer of
power in Afghanistan's history, since incumbent President Hamid Karzai
is barred from running again.
But, burned by the widespread fraud that marred the previous presidential election in 2009, some in Afghanistan are already raising questions over the vote's legitimacy. "There
must be a fair decision. We are tired of fighting," said a 47-year-old
voter, Omid Khan. Old men in traditional flat caps nodded vigorously as
the young waved Abdullah flags....
Go, Mr. Khan, Go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ya have to know the Karzai Copy is paying off everyone for his election. There is just no doubt.