The Karzais: "leftists" invented news of CIA's relationship with Ahmed Karzai

[bunnysoft]

This Daily Beast interview with the Karzai brothers a couple of days ago went largely unreported.

According to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Ahmed, a recent New York Times' story (written by Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen) about Ahmed's employment with the CIA is part of a "far-left" smear campaign:

“We (the Karzais) are being harassed by The New York Times' . This is a smear campaign. James Risen has a vendetta against us. And the Times is obviously being fed by the far-left lobbyist groups who are paying them to do this. These leftists want Afghanistan destabilized, they want the Karzais out of power so there is a vacuum, and then they can say it is such a mess that the Americans should abandon the country. This is a coordinated plan, have no doubt about it.”

Shouldn't these two be worrying about helping conduct clean elections instead?

[sabra]

1. looks like they get their talking points from Cheney?

[AllentownJake]

2. Karzai is another Chalabi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chalabi

A CIA recruited puppet shipped into the country without any base of popular support amongst his people.

[Javaman]

4. More like Chalabi wishes he were Karzai. nt

[AllentownJake]

5. Karzai is the President of Kabul

Outside of Kabul he has no power.

[Javaman]

9. And Chalabi is the president of what? nt

[AllentownJake]

10. Baghdad

In October 2007, Chalabi was appointed by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to head the Iraqi services committee, a consortium of eight service ministries and two Baghdad municipal posts tasked with the "surge" plan's next phase, restoring electricity, health, education and local security services to Baghdad neighborhoods.<24> "The key is going to be getting the concerned local citizens — and all the citizens — feeling that this government is reconnected with them....

[Javaman]

11. I stand corrected.

I just always assumed that chalabi had devolved into nothing more into a hanger on.

It kind of scares me now knowing he's in a power position in Iraq. Ugh.

Yeah, the mayor of kabul is trying his best to be mr. big pants and he's failing miserably.

Thanks for the correction. :)

Cheers.

[notadmblnd]

7. when he lived in this country, didn't he work for a large oil company?

[AllentownJake]

8. Don't know

His brother owns a Afghan restaruant in Baltimore.

[karynnj]

13. It is only his brother who is rumoured to be on teh payroll of the CIA

something he denies. Karzai has run an exceptionally corrupt government, but it is not clear there is a better alternative.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Does Karzai ever remove that green cape?

I'd hate to think what it smells like under there. To me, he looks more like a King than a man of the people.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Wow, it's like listening to a FAUX talking head

"far-left lobbying groups"? Really?

And notice the TOTAL ABSENCE of a reply to the actual substance of the article. Deny, deny, deny.

[librechik]

12. they know how to talk to us all right

now we'll do everything possible to avoid being labeled leftists. And we don't care what goes down too--truth, honor, practicality--fuck all that. He called us leftists. Nobvosy can call us leftists and get away with it.

Time to jail the New York Times.

we are so upside down nowadays...