This is bullshit. Our nation's defenders fighting and dying to put criminals in power in Afghanistan

[bigtree]

It's bad enough killing Afghans to preserve the criminal Karzai and his criminal regime in power and authority over Afghans. It's just a goddamn outrage that our troops and the Afghans they killed in invading and occupying Marjah fought and died to install a violent criminal to lord over the conquered residents . . .
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THE man chosen as the fresh face of good governance in an Afghan town just seized from the Taleban has a violent criminal record in Germany.

But his position as the new civilian chief in Marjah remains secure with officials describing Abdul Zahir Aryan as "doing a good job" (Brownie).

Records in Germany show Zahir served part of a prison sentence for stabbing his son in 1998

Annette von Schmiedeberg, a spokeswoman for the Offenbach branch of the prosecutor's office in Darmstadt in central Germany, said on Friday that an Afghan citizen with the name of Abdul Z was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for attempted manslaughter by the county court in Darmstadt on 2 November, 1998 . . .

A person familiar with Zahir and the 1998 court sentencing in Germany identified him after viewing a pair of photographs taken last month . . .

The newspaper Darmstaedter Echo has provided three archived articles that confirm a court hearing and sentencing of an Afghan citizen at the county court in Darmstadt on the same date.

In an article from 3 November, 1998, it said the defendant from Afghanistan was sentenced to prison because "he attempted to stab his 18-year-old son to death with a kitchen knife in his stepdaughter's kitchen in Nieder-Roden on 15 December, 1997, around 4.45pm".

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/world/Criminal-past-of-man-asked.6130291.jp

[tech9413]

1. Read a bit about Smedley Butler

It's been going on for decades. Check out his history and then read "War is a Racket". Neither is a long read but very informative.

[Robb]

2. First of all, if Karzai's still president by summer, I'll eat my hat.

You've watched the Obama administration do end runs around him. Karzai is on the outs, it's time for him to write his book. ;)

Second, Zahir is Alizai. Border people. Marjah will embrace him. Depending upon the circumstances, if he actually stabbed his son it may even help his credibility.