Looks like he is the one that needs the blessing:
"Karzai opens Parliament with honor roll of Afhgan dead" January 22, 2012|By Graham Bowley and Sharifullah Sahak
KABUL - The Taliban have stepped up a campaign of assassinations, creating a sense of siege that has made President Hamid Karzai a virtual prisoner of his own palace.
Smells more like a western intelligence agency operation to me, and I'm getting it straight from the mouthpiece. That's how I now view my newspaper: as one, long, distracting, divisive, obfuscating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, intelligence operation.
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Yeah, that's my morning paper!
While the surge of 30,000 additional US troops has had some success in pushing back the Taliban, the insurgents have hit back with targeted attacks intended to undermine public confidence by demonstrating the government’s inability to protect even its most senior officials....
Translation: You've been lied to, dear reader, be it the authorities or their mouthpieces. It would be f***ing funny if it were not so damn fatal.
Speaking before more than 250 members of Parliament, Karzai remembered Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council and a former president, who was killed in his home in September by a suicide bomber with explosives tucked in his turban.
Related: Rubbing Out Rabbani
Yeah, yeah, as you can tell I'm really getting sick of regurgitated cover-story crap.
He also mentioned General Dawood Dawood, deputy interior minister for counternarcotics, who was killed in May; General Abdul Rahman Sayedkhili, the police chief of Kunduz Province who died in March; Muhammad Omar, governor of Kunduz Province, who died in October 2010; Jan Mohammad Khan, an aide to Karzai and a former governor of southern Oruzgan province until 2006, who was killed in Kabul in July by gunmen inside his house; and Hajji Malik Mohammad Zarin, a prominent elder who was killed by a suicide bomber in April.
CIA kill 'em to shut 'em up?
He also read out the name of his half brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, head of the Kandahar provincial council and a power broker in the country’s south, who was shot to death by a police official in July.
Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Karzai's Kin
See why I tire of the read?
Somewhat conspicuously, and not for the first time, Karzai avoided mentioning the deaths of foreign troops in Afghanistan, even though his speech came only a day after four French soldiers were shot and killed by an Afghan soldier.
See: French Phonies in Afghanistan
Increasing violence by Afghan soldiers toward US and other coalition forces has raised tensions among the allies.
What it has led me to conclude is that it is time for NATO, the U.S., and all the rest to leave.
When our allies who are going to takeover the place are firing on us.... sigh.
Karzai spoke as a top US envoy, Marc Grossman, arrived in Kabul for discussions about starting peace talks with the Taliban.
Pfffffffffttttt!
I have heard peace talks for f***ing years, and besides those are off now from what has been reported in the Globe.
The Karzai government has expressed concern that it is not being fully included in the US-led efforts to reopen direct negotiations with the insurgents, complaining that the Afghan government should lead any talks.
Karzai used the speech to underscore Afghanistan’s right to decide its own future.
In reference to the long history of intervention by foreign powers in the country from Britain to the Soviet Union and the US-led coalition, he said, “Afghanistan is not a place for foreigners to do their political experiments or a laboratory that every few years they test a new political system.’’
Yeah, and what is omitted from the report and background is that the CIA created "Al-CIA-Duh" to lure in the Soviets and give them their own Vietnam. Then they took the list and turned them into the "enemy" after the false-flag inside job of 9/11 so the globe-kickers could repeat the Russian mistake!
Apparently reflecting the government’s longstanding concern about meddling by Pakistan, Karzai also called on those Afghan insurgents to lay down their “foreign weapons.’’
Yeah, right.
Didn't Pakistan shut down those contractor pipelines over the NATO missile attacks?
Maybe Karzai was referring to them, maybe he wasn't; in any event, I don't trust the interpretation by my agenda-pushing war daily. Sorry.
Afghan officials have voiced concern that Pakistan, where much of the Taliban leadership resides, could use the insurgents as a stalking horse to strike a deal with Washington, and in the process secure its own position in Afghanistan.
Yeah, good thing the U.S. never engages in covert operations for such ends, sigh.
In what seemed like an effort to demonstrate that the government was prepared to push forward on its own with peace negotiations, Karzai said that he had personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami, or Islamic Party, which operates under a separate command from the Taliban.
Related: Militant faction breaks off talks with US, Afghans
Isn't that the CIA group run by Hekmatyar?
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Also related:
"New attack feeds NATO worry that Afghan forces being infiltrated; American troops playing volleyball attacked; 1 killed" by Graham Bowley | New York Times, January 10, 2012
KABUL - An Afghan soldier turned his gun on US military personnel while they were playing volleyball over the weekend at a camp in southern Afghanistan, killing one and wounding three others before being fatally shot, the Afghan police said yesterday.
It was the third time in just more than two weeks that a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform attacked NATO personnel. In the earlier cases, the Taliban claimed responsibility. There was no immediate claim in this case that the Afghan soldier had Taliban sympathies....
Afghan soldiers have repeatedly shot their NATO counterparts in recent years, and there is widespread concern among NATO and Afghan commanders that insurgents might be infiltrating the ranks of the Afghan security forces....
Something smells rank, readers, and I've traced the smell to the newspaper on my desk beside me.
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"Ex-senator, 4 others killed by road bomb
KABUL - A roadside bomb detonated by remote control killed five people Saturday in southern Afghanistan, including a former Afghan senator and tribal leader who worked to foster peace and development.
Those guys always seem to meet a violent end.
The former lawmaker, Khairo Jan, was riding in a vehicle with three bodyguards and another tribal leader from the area when the bomb exploded on the road as they passed, a spokesman for the Uruzgan Province police chief said."
