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 Report: Karzai Set Taliban Leader FreePosted on Apr 8, 2010
A professional kidnapper and Taliban commander was released from an Afghan prison 10 years early and may have won a hush-hush pardon from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the BBC reports. Karzai’s people say the president “could not recall the matter.”
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By Steve E, April 9, 2010 at 2:31 am Link to this comment
Yup, his days are numbered. Don’t take any car rides Karzai and for Ali’s sake stay
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By ofersince72, April 8, 2010 at 7:20 am Link to this comment
They are getting ready to get rid of him, can you
Report thisimagine the American media corp having the nerve to call
any other government corrupt???? Even if it is…
we installed it. We saw the same thing with Saddam didn’t
we? He was the good guy for a long time, until he
quit using the dollar standard selling Iraq oil, then
we demonized him or Hitlerized, same thing. Now, every
one knows that the Caspian Sea holds what maybe the world’s largest untapped natural gas and petro reserves.
It would be so nice just to be able to remove it. Really
sweet just to through Iran to the Persian Gulf and out.
Can’t do that without paying right of way and the Oil
companies not used to having to do that.
I wonder how many governments Afghan is going to have
to go through and how many lost lives before the oil
companies get their pipeline secure for free for them.
Free for them, cost us and the Afghans a lot though.
By Joe, April 8, 2010 at 6:42 am Link to this comment
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Considering the Taliban was (and in my mind until the US leaves still is) the most legitimate government in that country its a bit of a stretch to call them the bad guys. Especially when considering arrests and killings by the government have gone up dramatically under Karzai’s puppet rule than it ever was under the the so called evil Taliban
As far as “kidnapping” UN workers. That’s one way to look at it I suppose. Or you could say that he arrested foreign militants
If the League of Arab Nations decided to send militants to this country in order to produce regime change similar to the western UN “peaekeeping” forces I’m quite sure their capture would be described as an arrest not a kidnapping
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