Monday, March 14, 2011

Karzai: Foreign troops should get out of Afghanistan

President Hamid Karzai has spoken out against tribal elders for an early withdrawal of NATO troops. The Allies should their anti-terror fight not run on Afghan territory, but rather in Pakistan, the President said.


Karzai met with hundreds of tribal elders, among whom were also members of nine children and other civilians who had recently been killed in attacks by the NATO-led ISAF troops. "If there is a war against terrorists and international terrorism, they should take him to the regions we have shown them in the past nine years and they know it," Karzai said in the address of the NATO troops.

"We are very tolerant people, but our tolerance is now over." Karzai has in the past repeatedly called for the radical Islamic Taliban positions abroad, particularly in Pakistan, instead of attacking Afghan villages. The many victims among the civilian population are the ones making the dispute between Western forces and the government in Kabul.

Currently, the violent death of a cousin of Afghan President charged with a mission by U.S. special forces the ratio. The 65-year-old Jaar Mohammad Khan, a second cousin Karzai has been Afghanistan after details were killed accidentally in the early hours of Thursday. "The president sees this as another unfortunate case of a verlnen life," Karzai's spokesman had Waheed Omer.

The number of killed civilians by NATO forces in Afghanistan, according to the UN last year declined despite an increase in the U.S. quota and more violent battles with the Taliban. have learned that some cases of civilian casualties in the recent past, much public attention thwarted, however, the efforts of NATO.

The incident occurred with Karzai's cousin just over a week after NATO pilots in eastern Afghanistan have accidentally killed nine boys at the gathering wood. Karzai responded unusually angry, there were demonstrations. The commander in chief of the international forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, apologized publicly.

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