Karzai called on the United States and other countries to extradite any Afghans accused of corruption, and to return money illicitly transferred out of the country. He also asked the international community, particularly the US, not to award construction contracts to Afghan officials or their relatives.
“An Afghan who signs a contract with Americans or other foreigners is not committed to his president because he is taking orders from elsewhere,” Karzai said. The president noted that he had previously been criticised for pursuing “compromise” policies, but vowed that he would no longer do so. LINK
The exit from Afghanistan involves dismantling 400 bases, bringing home 45,000 military vehicles, and returning 100,000 shipping containers.
"All that stuff has to come out now along the same slender arteries it came in on," Carter told the paper. "That is a very big difference from the last one of these I did, which was two years ago in Iraq."
Read more on Newsmax.com: Leaving Afghanistan to Cost Billions
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Beaucoup d’arguments ont été avancés quant au fait que l’Algérie n’est pas concernée par les révoltes enregistrées dans des pays arabes. Pour certains observateurs, indique M. Kadri, l’argument de l’effet des violences et du conflit qui ont marqué la décennie 1990 n’ont pas été sans marquer et traumatiser les esprits par leur cruauté. Pour d’autres, l’aisance financière du pays, concomitante de l’augmentation du prix du baril, a permis d’acheter la paix sociale par une politique d’augmentation salariale et de corruption de larges pans de la société.
Dans un contexte de crise économique généralisée, et après des négociations assez formalistes tentant de sauver les apparences d’un Etat affaibli et déconsidéré, contrevenant à toute règle économique, toute catégorie qui manifeste, voit ses doléances se concrétiser. En troisième lieu, le sociologue cite un autre profil d’observateurs, plutôt locaux (Algériens), qui se retrouvent parmi les intelligentsias qui ont accompagné le pouvoir. Ces élites avancent que le jeune nationalisme algérien est plus exacerbé que d’autres et que les Algériens, échaudés d’ingérences intolérables (Libye), sont tout à fait conscients des enjeux de redéploiement de l’empire et de ses affidés. PLUS ICI
Morocco’s vital statistics are worse than Tunisia’s. Its population earns half as much on average as its smaller North African counterpart. One of every two youth are unemployed, and the number is rising: failed rains have cut the country’s wheat harvest in half and have compounded a mounting budget deficit hiked by rising fuel prices and a downturn in tourism and exports to Europe, Morocco’s beleaguered main trading partner. In late May, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Casablanca to protest the government’s failure to tackle the country’s social ills. READ MORE
This interview, originating in the New Statesman, is full of wishful thinking interpretations by the NYT (and even the NS) employees. Interesting nevertheless:
“The Kabul regime has no authority in the issues that matter in a war — power and control of the armed forces,” he said. “There is little point in talking to Kabul. Real authority rests with the Americans.”
And when it comes to joining the political system, he said, the Taliban believe it is the Americans who control the outcome, giving them little incentive to strive to become part of it.
“Under the current system, we believe it is basically the Americans who get to pick the president,” Maulvi said. More
The family of a California soldier killed in Afghanistan has sued a Canadian military contractor for rehiring a security guard, an Afghan national, after he allegedly threatened to attack U.S. troops.
The wrongful-death lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles claims Tundra Strategies failed to document the threats made by Shir Ahmed and didn't report the danger he posed to U.S. military officials.
Ahmed killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded four others at a Kandahar military base in 2011. Among those killed was medic Rudy Acosta, whose family along with three survivors, filed the suit.
Ahmed was killed after he opened fire. U.S. officials said Tundra records show Ahmed wasn't flagged as a threat because the allegations against him were unsubstantiated.
Rupert Murdoch owns 175 newspapers. In 2003, all 175 'independent' editors wrote articles supporting the invasion of Iraq. More on the News International/Blair Foundation/USrael axis HERE
