Afghan President Will Not Seek Third Term

Purveyor

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Thu Aug-11-11 10:50 AM
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Afghan President Will Not Seek Third Term

Source: Agence France-Presse

President Hamid Karzai, who has been the only leader in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down the Taliban, will not seek a third term in office, his palace said Thursday.

"The constitution of Afghanistan does not allow anyone to run for the presidency for more than two terms," the statement quoted Karzai as telling a group of parliamentarians.

He "will not try to run for the presidency for the third time", it added.

Karzai was sworn in as interim leader of Afghanistan in December 2001, shortly after the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban.

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no_hypocrisy

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Thu Aug-11-11 10:52 AM
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So, who have we selected to the be the next president of Afghanistan?

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alfredo

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Thu Aug-11-11 11:27 AM
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4. Jeb Bush

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Blue_Tires

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Thu Aug-11-11 02:57 PM
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8. I'll do it...That job is the greatest of naked cash grabs!!

Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 02:57 PM by Blue_Tires

If I'm president, at least the billions the Pentagon is throwing away will go to an American...I might even save a piece for my fellow DUers...

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MADem

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Thu Aug-11-11 10:52 AM
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1. Ahhh, he's apparently squirreled away enough loot to make a good escape!

He probably sees some handwriting on the wall as well.

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Arctic Dave

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Thu Aug-11-11 10:56 AM
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2. Yep.

Expect a photo of him waving as he enters a jet to another country. He will be yelling, "SUCKERS" as he rolls around in all the cash he stole.

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MADem

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Thu Aug-11-11 11:26 AM
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3. They killed his brother recently; clearly he knows he has a target on his back.

I think his security team is our people--he can't trust his own. I think his brother was killed by one of his Afghan security team.

Vegas ought to take book on where he'll go...Switzerland? UK? France?

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Demeter

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Thu Aug-11-11 11:28 AM
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5. It was our people that took out his brother

Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 11:28 AM by Demeter

He had probably pissed off the wrong person once too often.

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MADem

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Thu Aug-11-11 06:01 PM
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9. He was a CIA contact who got recruited by the Taliban.

That doesn't necessarily mean that he was on "our" team, he simply sold us information. I'm quite certain that you're right about Karzai's brother; but I think he pissed off the Taliban too much, not us! Maybe he wasn't giving them their drug money cut?

The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai's brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban, raising fears over the Islamist movement's increasingly sophisticated intelligence apparatus which has managed to threaten the inner circles of power in Afghanistan....evidence is emerging that the Taliban recruited Mohammad – who was believed to be a friend, confidant and trusted lieutenant of Ahmed Wali Karzai – in an infiltration of the Afghan government's security apparatus.

"Our investigation shows that for the last three months he was acting out of character, not normal, erratic," said Mahmoud Karzai, another Karzai brother. "He wasn't sleeping, he was nervous, he was getting phone calls in the middle of the night, and our information shows he made a trip to Quetta and met with some Taliban. His father was a mullah. So all these things combined, plus the Taliban claim of responsibility... but our preliminary investigation indicates this was the work of the Taliban."

Security analysts say that, if true, it shows not only the problems facing the Afghan army and police as they start taking control of the country from Nato, but also how sophisticated Taliban intelligence operations have become.

The immediate assumption after Ahmed Karzai's death was that Mohammad was pursuing a personal vendetta, largely because the notion of defection to the Taliban was so hard to credit. But that seems to be what happened. The insurgents "get these very big victories quite often and I think probably we underestimate the intelligence components," said one Western analyst.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bodyguard-who-killed-karzais-brother-was-trusted-cia-contact-2314580.html

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Wait Wut

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Thu Aug-11-11 12:03 PM
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6. I'd love to say this is great news...

...but, I'll wait to see the replacement.

Until then, this is "good" news, at least. I'd place a small, conspiracy-theory based, bet that he could be one of the new top goons at al Qaeda. From a cushy office in a distant socialist country, of course.

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No Elephants

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Thu Aug-11-11 12:09 PM
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7. Anyone know how Afghans say "Meet the new boss?"

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Javaman

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Fri Aug-12-11 08:11 AM
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10. who's the next up and coming puppet? nt

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