Karzai pardons Taliban kidnapper

[muriel_volestrangler]

Akbar Agha was sentenced to 16 years in prison for kidnapping three UN workers in the Afghan capital in 2004. He was released from prison late last year.

His friends told the BBC he had been pardoned by President Hamid Karzai. But a spokesman said the president could not recall the matter.
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Akbar Agha had used the kidnap to launch a Taliban splinter group, Jaish-ul-Muslimeen or The Army of Muslims.
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Friends said President Karzai had pardoned him, on condition that he stayed in Kabul.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8606492.stm

I just don't see Karzai as trustworthy on anything now. Here we have a simple crime, by anyone's standards, and he pardons the man, although there are still soldiers from other countries dying in his country to apparently protect Karzai from the Taliban.

[Historic NY]

1. Its time to pull back our troops.

[Mari333]

2. can we fec`king LEAVE now??

[spanone]

3. i say let karzai have afghanistan....have fun hamid. bring the troops home now

[bullwinkle428]

4. This is the guy American soldiers are fighting and dying for?

:mad: :mad: :mad: