Sunday, December 21, 2008

Karzai: US forces alienated Afghans.

This is from presstv.
Karzai has been complaining of US air attacks and other attacks for ages but it seems to have no effect on US policy. Karzai really has little or no control on what the US does and often will not even be informed of what is happening in case govt. sources might inform the Taliban or other insurgents.

Karzai: US forces alienated Afghans Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:10:26 GMT

President Hamid Karzai takes harsh view of US strategiesAfghan President Hamid Karzai has criticized the US strategy in troop deployment, admitting his government's mistake concerning security. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Karzai blamed US operational strategy as a key element in alienating the Afghan tribes with "extrajudicial killings", leading to the fragile security condition in the country. He said the NATO forces should have focused on fighting insurgents in their hideouts in neighboring Pakistan. "For years, I've been saying that the war on terrorism is not in Afghanistan, that it's in the training camps, it's in sanctuaries," Karzai noted, adding that the US officials ignored the warnings. Karzai reiterated that concentrating more troops around the Afghan capital was not a good idea and called for clarification of responsibilities of the ISAF forces and the Afghan government. President Hamid Karzai has grown increasingly impatient with the American-led war effort against the Taliban insurgency and has repeatedly condemned the US strikes against the Afghan civilians. A deadly US military raid on a house near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan became a new source of tension on Thursday, with the Americans calling it a successful counterterrorism strike and the Afghans saying it left three innocent civilians dead and two wounded, including a 4-year-old boy bitten by an attack dog. RZS/HAR

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