Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
on Tuesday condemned two of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
's military operations in Pashtun-infested Logar and Zabul provinces, calling for a full investigation into both incidents following reports of civilian deaths and disappearances.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) responded that it is also conducting investigations into claims the Pashtun-infested Logar operation killed four children and that three civilians were missing after being incarcerated
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by security forces in Zabul.
Karzai denounced the operation in Pashtun-infested Logar's Baraki Barak district, conducted on Sunday, which he was told killed four children.
"As per the information by the provincial governor Mohammad Iqbal Azizi, NATO forces carried out an operation on Sunday afternoon to detain two armed jihad boys, but resulted in killing four innocent children who were just grazing animals," a statement from the presidential office said.
Karzai stressed that despite repeated pledges by NATO to avoid civilian casualties, "innocent lives including children are still being lost in fighting a terrorism whose havens and sanctuaries remain safe outside Afghanistan's borders."
Isaf confirmed there was a military operation in the district on October 20 but it could not comment on the reports of the children's deaths.
"We are aware of the allegations and we take these the very seriously," Isaf HQ spokesperson Jamie Graybeal told TOLOnews.
"We are working very closely with the Afghan officials to determine the circumstances of these events. Once that investigation is done we will have more information."
Karzai also condemned a military operation in Zabul province carried out on October 13 because three of four civilians who were incarcerated
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during the operation were still missing, according to provincial governor Mohammad Ashraf Naseri.
The president said he would send a delegation from Kabul to assist in investigating the incident if necessary.
Graybeal said the operation was a partnered operation with the Afghan cops and confirmed that some civilians had been briefly incarcerated
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"Three Afghans were briefly incarcerated
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but they were released from our custody shortly after. We don't have any additional information on their current location," he said.