USA may directly funds terrorists in Afghanistan. - Karzai

[grahamhgreen]

"AMANPOUR: The private contractors, you have called and your office has called for them to be disbanded by the end of this year, in the next four months. That's something like 30,000 private contractors who are providing security. Are you standing by that declaration you want them out by the end of this year?

KARZAI: Definitely, ma'am. This is a topic that I've been engaging with, with our allies for the last at least four years very intensively. Finally, I began to conclude after a lot of consideration and on a good ground of solid information that the more we wait, the more we lose.

Therefore, we have decided in the Afghan government to bring an end to the presence of these security companies who are running a parallel security structure to the Afghan government, who are not only causing corruption in this country, but who are looting and stealing from the Afghan people, who are causing a lot of harassment to our civilians who we don't know if they are security companies at daytime and then some of them turn into terroristic groups at nighttime.

They are wasting billions of dollars of resources and they are definitely an obstruction, an impediment..."

http://thepage.time.com/transcript-karzai-on-this-week-august-22-2010/


Why are we there, again?

[PDJane]

1. Resources.

The US has been funding the taliban since July 3, 1979. The US has been funding al Qaeda at least that long, and using them as an Islamist mercenary force. And don't forget the shady dealings with the Turks.....read 'The grand chess board.'

The old men in the pentagon are still fighting the cold war, too. Once these bits of 'wisdom' become accepted theology, it's very hard to escape the trap.