Afghanistan’s first media mogul partner is Rupert Murdoch...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Every day in Kabul, politicians and journalists in search of information come to a barricaded dead-end street in the Wazir Akbar Khan district to see Saad Mohseni, the chairman of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s preëminent media company. At the last house on the right, burly men carrying AK-47s lead them up creaky stairs to a small second-floor office. Mohseni, a gregarious man with a politician’s habits, often stands up to greet visitors with a hug, then returns to his desk, where a BlackBerry, two cell phones, and a MacBook Air laptop are constantly lit up; fifteen small flat-screen TVs, set to mute, are mounted on the office walls.

Mohseni speaks so rapidly that the words sometimes run together, and he periodically interrupts himself to call out to his assistant—“Sekander!”—to make a phone call or produce a piece of paper. But he listens as intently as a psychiatrist, gathering information from an intricate network of sources: government and anti-government Afghans, American officials, foreign correspondents, diplomats, intelligence operatives, reporters, business and tribal and even Taliban leaders.

One morning this spring, Jon Boone, the Afghan correspondent for the London Guardian, stopped by. Boone, a lanky man with blond hair and stubble, sat on a folding chair and asked Mohseni if he thought that President Hamid Karzai was genuinely interested in reconciliation with the Taliban. Mohseni quickly said he thought Karzai was.

Boone peppered Mohseni with questions. At one point, when Mohseni did not know an answer he called out to Sekander to get the speaker of parliament on the line. The speaker could not be found, so Mohseni grabbed his cell phone and punched the number of the Vice-President. He spoke briefly, then hung up and announced, “He’ll call me back in a second.”

Before the day ended, Mohseni had talked with the speaker, the Vice-President, and the intelligence chief, and several members of parliament had come to visit.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/05/100705fa_fact_auletta#ixzz0sFLuoM88

God protect the minds of the poor people of Afghanistan.

[ixion]

1. Big shocker there...

not so much.

War, Inc. puts this all into perspective.

[metroman]

2. How many more reasons we need to get hell out of Afghanistan?

How many more reasons we need to get hell out of Afghanistan?

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/warlords.pdf

So here it comes… Being a decent American taxpayer, I for my OWN money finance the Taliban. Obama! this is not the change I voted for… Or may be this must be exactly what you meant saying during the campaign that we needed to have dialogue with our enemies!?

Afghanistan is not our war, it’s our shame, the shame of all Americans, it is our second Vietnam. Just think: we pull out billions to pay the enemies we’re fighting with to secure our SOLDIERS from being attacked and to ensure military goods transit… Well, why not just pull the troops out and send checks instead??

lol, this war is becoming such a stupid thing…