{"id":3447,"date":"2014-03-04T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:04:05","slug":"karzai-expresses-extreme-anger-against-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/03\/04\/3447\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai expresses \u2018extreme anger\u2019 against America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/karzai_yalda_interview.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>President Hamid Karzai has expressed \u201cextreme anger\u201d toward the United States as it prepares to end its 13-year war in Afghanistan, intensifying his criticism in his final months in power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Karzai has taken an increasingly antagonistic view of the US role in Afghanistan, despite formerly being a close ally and accepting billions of dollars in aid since he took office after the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The president, who will stand down after elections on April 5, lashed out at the US government and described Al-Qaeda, the militants behind the 9\/11 attacks, as \u201cmore a myth than a reality.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTo the American people, give them my best wishes and my gratitude. To the US government, give them my anger, my extreme anger,\u201d Karzai told the Washington Post in an interview published on Monday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There was no immediate response from the US Embassy in Kabul, but relations between the two countries have plunged to a new low as the final 55,000 US-led NATO troops prepare to head home and Karzai enters his final months in office.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The president made a surprise decision late last year not to sign an agreed deal that would see 8-12,000 US troops stay in Afghanistan after this year on a training and counter-terrorism mission.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s good for the US to sign it with my successor,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the interview Karzai vented his fury over civilian casualties caused during the war against the Taleban, who had sheltered Al-Qaeda while in power in Kabul from 1996-2001.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThere is no war to be fought in Afghanistan. I believe that much of the conflict is a creation in which the Afghans suffer,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhy is America here? I can\u2019t answer for America. The American president says they are here to fight extremism and terrorism and to secure America.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIf the way toward securing America is raiding Afghan homes, fighting in Afghan villages \u2014 well, that will not secure America.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Among the contenders in the election are Karzai\u2019s former Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul, opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah and former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The new president may not be chosen until after a second-round run-off due on May 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Arab news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hamid Karzai has expressed \u201cextreme anger\u201d toward the United States as it prepares to end its 13-year war in Afghanistan, intensifying his criticism in his final months in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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