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A handful of these have formed an interim government on
behalf of America and are thus traitorous agents the majority
of which are westerners infatuated by the western culture.
America held with them fake negotiations for nine days in Bonn
which ended in ratifying an agreement, through which America
appointed an interim leader, five deputies and a number of
ministers for the important cabinet posts. Through this
agreement she set down a plan for their government, which they
will follow for the next six months alongside a plan for after
their rule relating to the future of Afghanistan. What follows
is a brief profile of the main traitor that heads the American
appointed interim government.
The chief of southern Afghanistan's Popolzai tribe, from
Kandahar and a member of the same clan as the former Afghan
king, Zahir Shah, the BBC described him as follows, “He is
well educated and westernized. He speaks English fluently
and served as a deputy foreign minister in Afghanistan's
first Mujaheddin government in 1992.”
He is America’s chosen man to lead the interim government of
Afghanistan. From mid-October until the Taliban abandoned
its southern stronghold of Kandahar his month, a team from
the U.S. Army 5th Special Forces group protected Karzai and
his militia of Pashtun fighters, calling in airstrikes and
repelling Taliban attacks. One of the Americans’ primary
missions, members of the 5th Special Forces group told The
Washington Post earlier this month, was to keep Karzai
alive.
When Hamid Karzai was being attacked by the Taliban in
southern Afghanistan in mid-October, U.S. military forces
came to his rescue. As Secretary of State for Defence Donald
H. Rumsfeld later described it, an American helicopter flew
him to safety in Pakistan before he returned to his
loyalists massing in the mountains north of Kandahar.
“American officials are just delighted that Karzai is going
to be interim leader,” said a former senior U.S. diplomat
still active in Afghan affairs to the Washington Post. “But we
can’t say that and Karzai can’t show it much either, because
then he would be called an American puppet back home. And
being seen as the puppet of any foreign power is political
death in Afghanistan.” These American connections even caused
a previous president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, to attack Karzai as
having been “imposed” by the United States.
Well before September’s attacks in New York and Washington
again made Afghan opposition leaders a focus of American
foreign policy, Karzai was a well known figure at the State
Department and National Security Council, on Capitol Hill and
at think tanks and foundations that focus on Afghan affairs.
He frequently visited the United States from his base in
Quetta, Pakistan, and met regularly with U.S. diplomats and
security officials.
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Karzai's also worked for the oil company UNOCAL as
mentioned by the French paper Le Monde: "Hamid Karzai, who is
as comfortable discussing sitting on a carpet as in a
Washington or London "salon", has a profound knowledge of the
western world. After Kabul and India, where he has studied
law, he completed his learnings in the USA, where he acted,
for a while, as a consultant for the American oil company
Unocal, at the time it was considering building a pipeline in
Afghanistan."
At the age of 43 Hamid Karzai, has had a long involvement
with U.S. foreign policy leaders and policymakers on
Afghanistan. He for instance last year discussed Afghanistan
at the Rand Corp, invited by Zalmay Khalilzad, who is now a
key National Security Council adviser on Afghanistan. He also
met periodically with Christina Rocca, now assistant secretary
of state for South Asian affairs, while she was foreign policy
adviser to Senator Sam Brownback. State Department official
who has known him for years was quoted to say, "To us, he is
still Hamid, a man we’ve dealt with for some time."
Karzai clearly yearned for The United States involvement
in Afghanistan and in ridding the Taliban, according to U.S.
officials. “He was trying to keep the U.S. informed of his
activities, and get us more actively engaged,” said Karl F.
Inderfurth, who was assistant secretary of state for South
Asian affairs under President Bill Clinton. State Department
officials remain in constant contact with Karzai by
satellite telephone.
The level of American support for their man Karzai was
especially visible in Bonn last month, when the United
States (in the disguise of the UN) manipulated the political
agreement among Afghanistan’s ethnic and political factions
that made him head of the interim government. As one senior
administration official admitted to the Washington Post,
although the meeting was convened by the United Nations,
“the U.S. was doing the heavy lifting”.
Indeed the United States wanted to ensure that it created
the conditions for Karzai’s appointment. In particular, they
delivered the message to Rabbani, a leader of the Northern
Alliance that he had to step aside, and to Abdul Sattar
Sirat, who had been nominated by the group representing the
former king to become interim leader, that he did not have
the necessary support. With those two competitors gone,
Karzai became the consensus candidate.
Karzai’s U.S. ties are familial, as well as diplomatic. He
has four brothers and a sister in the United States, and has
traveled regularly to visit them. One of them, Qayum, has
become active in his brother’s diplomatic and political
campaigns.
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