Afghanistan: Jihadists murder close Karzai aide in his home

First his brother. Next, his close aide. The Taliban are flexing their muscles and showing how much they can accomplish. Will Karzai be next, or will he head that off by making good on his threat to join the Taliban?

"Karzai Adviser Is Killed at Kabul Home," by Jack Healy and Abdul Waheed Wafa in the New York Times, July 17 (thanks to Bill):

KABUL, Afghanistan — A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai who had been a fierce foe of the Taliban in Afghanistan’s south was killed Sunday night after a small team of gunmen stormed his walled home here in the capital.

The slain aide, Jan Mohammed Khan, was a former governor of the southern Oruzgan Province who had been one of Mr. Karzai’s trusted allies and a regular presence inside the presidential palace. He was killed alongside a member of Parliament from Oruzgan, Mohammed Hosham Watanwal.

The men’s deaths were confirmed by Gen. Mohammed Zahir, a police official in Kabul.

The killings marked another potentially heavy blow for Mr. Karzai, coming just days after his powerful half-brother was assassinated by a close associate in southern Afghanistan.

About 90 minutes after the attack began at 8:30 p.m., Afghan security forces still had not captured or killed all of the gunmen. It was unclear whether anyone else had been killed or wounded, or whether the assailants had taken hostages.

“The terrorists are still inside, in one of the rooms,” General Zahir said. “We are trying our best.”...

Of course you are.

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Looked at clinically, the question at this point is: will the noose of murder encircling him cause Karzai to be a better ally to the United States (and freedom) or a worse ally?

*** Ishaq 344 ***

We smote the Infidels and they scattered. The impious met death. They became fuel for Hell. All who aren't Moslems must go there. It will consume them while the stoker Allah increases the heat. They had called Mohammed a liar. They claimed, "You are nothing but a sorcerer." So Allah destroyed them.

I lied. The only remaining question is whether Karzai is a pious Moslem. We already knew he was the worst possible ally, that he was, and is, a backstabbing con artist no account untrustworthy sumbitch. Hell, even the Ivy League dumbasses working over at State knew that.

The only question is: why should Americans care who seizes power in Afghanistan? Good, bad or indifferent, they'll never be trusted allies of the USA.
It's time we brought our troops home and let the Afghans fight this out. If Afghanistan becomes a terrorist haven, that's their problem. They're a sovereign nation and sovereignty begets responsibility. There is only one way for us to protect ourselves in that case: no one who sets foot in Afghanistan enters (or reenters) the US.

Geez, whoulda thunk announcing a withdrawal timeline would have this effect on the enemy?

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If Afghanistan becomes a terrorist haven, that's their problem.

True. And the trouble is, terrorist havens can serve as operating bases for attacks on civilized homelands. Afghan itself proved that with 9/11, and the Sudan with the mass murder carnage it spawned in east Africa before that.

Now there are Moslem operations bases all over, even in South America. All they need is about a thousand acres and for the local police to not ask any stupid questions.

*** Tabari 9:69 ***

Killing disbelievers is a small matter to us.
- the Holy Prophet Mohammed

I wonder what's going on up at that big Moslem retreat retreat up in the Poconos.


We should not be all over the world "Nation building". Just where has it worked out well? Since the founding fathers established the United States, we've been doing very poorly at building our own house. We should get out of these fights that are not ours.


Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Proverbs 26:17

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