Ahmadinejad's first Afghan visit ruffles US feathers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2148530,00.html


Meeting with Karzai in open defiance of Washington



Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, audaciously signalled his determination to counter US global power today by meeting his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, in open defiance of Washington's wishes.
Mr Ahmadinejad led a high-ranking Iranian delegation to Kabul in a demonstration of growing Iranian influence in Afghanistan, where the US, Britain and other western powers are engaged in a bitter struggle with the Taliban.


The visit - Mr Ahmadinejad's first to Afghanistan - was tailor-made to provoke alarm within the Bush administration, which accuses Tehran of destabilising its efforts while claiming that the Taliban is being armed with Iranian weapons. Iran, which is mainly Shia, denies helping the Taliban, whose puritanical Sunni ideology it has condemned.


Today's trip came just a week after Mr Karzai, a key US ally, publicly disagreed with the US president, George Bush, about the nature of Iran's involvement in Afghanistan.

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After departing from Kabul, Mr Ahmadinejad was due to fly to Turkmenistan before going on to Kyrgyzstan to attend a summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a body created by Russia and China to address regional security threats, foster economic integration and counter US influence in central Asia.
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grinning

'terra organization'.

What a spoiled little moronic brat Bush** is. Of course that was a given.

WTF business is it of his really? Do it MY way or I will be in a snit. Somehow it is always the feathers of the US that get ruffled when in reality they are just pissing off Bush**. Me? I say they should go for it, make some progress and peace for themselves. They should not have to ask permission from our petulant dictator. He would not know diplomacy or peace making or cooperation if it was in his very own diapers.