Re: Embedded with the Taliban
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: garrett4</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just like South Vietnam , AFghanistan is full of corrupt officials that just suck up our money. We try to build democratic country with no history of democracy. We would have been better to leave the country as it was divided in ethnic sections where the warloads reigned. Small ops like SF and Navy SEALS would have performed the missions. My belief anyway. </div></div>
"August 28, 2010
Graft-Fighting Prosecutor Is Dismissed in Afghanistan
By DEXTER FILKINS and ALISSA J. RUBIN
KABUL, Afghanistan — One of the country’s most senior prosecutors said Saturday that President Hamid Karzai fired him last week after he repeatedly refused to block corruption investigations at the highest levels of Mr. Karzai’s government.
Fazel Ahmed Faqiryar, the former deputy attorney general, said investigations of more than two dozen senior Afghan officials — including cabinet ministers, ambassadors and provincial governors — were being held up or blocked outright by Mr. Karzai, Attorney General Mohammed Ishaq Aloko and others.
Mr. Faqiryar’s account of the troubles plaguing the anticorruption investigations, which Mr. Karzai’s office disputed, has been largely corroborated in interviews with five Western officials familiar with the cases. They say Mr. Karzai and others in his government have repeatedly thwarted prosecutions against senior Afghan government figures....
Mr. Faqiryar made his allegations amid a growing sense of alarm in the Obama administration and in Congress over Mr. Karzai’s failure to take action against officials suspected of corruption, but also as the administration debates whether pushing too hard on corruption will alienate a government whose cooperation they need to wage war.
Awash in American and NATO money, Mr. Karzai’s government is widely regarded as one of the most corrupt in the world. American officials believe that the corruption drives Afghans into the arms of the Taliban. "
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/world/asia/29afghan.html?ref=global-home <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">I have seen the ENEMY and it is within our corps.</span></span>
"August 22, 2010
Pakistanis Tell of Motive in Taliban Leader’s Arrest
By DEXTER FILKINS
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When American and Pakistani agents captured Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s operational commander, in the chaotic port city of Karachi last January, both countries hailed the arrest as a breakthrough in their often difficult partnership in fighting terrorism. ...
A senior NATO officer in Kabul said that in arresting Mr. Baradar and the other Taliban leaders, the Pakistanis may have been trying to buy time to see if President Obama’s strategy begins to prevail. If it does, the Pakistanis may eventually decide to let the Taliban make a deal. But if the Americans fail — and if they begin to pull out — then the Pakistanis may decide to retain the Taliban as their allies....
We have been played before,” a senior NATO official said. “That the Pakistanis picked up Baradar to control the tempo of the negotiations is absolutely plausible.”
As for Mr. Baradar, he is now living comfortably in a safe house of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Pakistani official said. “He’s relaxing,” the official said.
Many of the other Taliban leaders, after receiving lectures against freelancing peace deals, have been released to fight again. "
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/asia/23taliban.html?scp=1&sq=pakistan%20ISI&st=cse <span style="text-decoration: underline">
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