Afghan President Hamid Karzai has frequently lashed at the U.S. military for causing civilian casualties in its raids, but senior Afghan officials told the Washington Posts Kevin Scieff that behind the scenes, he has been building a far broader case against the Americans, suggesting that they may have aided or conducted shadowy insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government (Post). According to Scieff, Karzai has created a list of dozens of attacks that he believes the United States may have been involved in, including the Jan. 17 attack on the La Taverna du Liban restaurant in Kabul that killed 21 people, including three Americans. James B. Cunningham, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, noted that: Its a deeply conspiratorial view thats divorced from reality. While it is unclear where Karzais suspicions have come from, they help explain why it has been so hard to conclude the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that will determine the size and scope of any U.S. troop presence that remains in the country when the NATO combat mission ends in December. Bonus read: Reading Hamid Karzai, Marvin G. Weinbaum (SouthAsia).
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:52:54 +0000
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