End operations in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai tells NATO

[unhappycamper]

End operations in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai tells NATO
Published: Saturday, Mar 12, 2011, 17:45 IST
Place: Asadabad, Afghanistan | Agency: PTI

Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai today urged international troops to "stop their operations in our land", his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.

Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.

"I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land," Karzai said, visiting the dead children's relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

"We are very tolerant people but now our tolerance has run out."

He added that Kabul and his Western backers in the war against the Taliban were well aware that Pakistan's border areas, where insurgents have hideouts, ought to be the focus of international military campaigns.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. pity our leaders in DC are deaf to such pleas.

[msongs]

2. the world's smartest human being doesn't know when we are not welcome in someone else's country lol

[Arctic Dave]

3. Hey sock puppet. Do you really think the the US gov or military gives a shit

about you or killing your children?

I'll give you a hint, Obama has increased the war in your country.

[Johnny_dollar]

4. What happened to my post?

It was there, now it's not. No explanation as to why.