pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
KABUL, Afghanistan — In late April, President Hamid Karzai, the smooth-talking and suave-dressing Western-backed president of this key nation in the war on terror, survived yet another assassination attempt as he sat on a podium with foreign dignitaries, waiting for the country’s most important annual military parade.
Although Karzai was not harmed, the bold and well-planned attack has come to be seen as evidence of a new level of sophistication for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, a possible militant infiltration of the Afghan government and failures of intelligence in the war-torn country.
Last week, the assassination attempt even turned into a regional flash point, when Afghan officials accused Pakistani intelligence operatives of conspiring in the plot, deepening tensions between two neighbors crucial to U.S. policy in the region. Pakistan denied the accusations.
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