HAMID KARZAI

She assisted the Family of the Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai in the early 2000s, hoping to establish a non-profit public service organization. Once it was operating she realized that the origination had a murkey accounting system and the "first family" was extracting money from the organization.

Many government officials realized this, but soft pedaled the information lest the American public's negative reaction might have been to reduce or cut off support to the American effort to stabilize and protect Afghanistan from the Taliban, Islamic, Fundamentalist, Extremist Terrorists. They chose what they believed to be the lesser of two evils. If the Taliban could be defeated, then attention might be turned to reforming the government and getting rid of Karzai. Others that that was a great mistake and Karzai should be deposed first, because as long as the corruption permeated the entire Afghan government, the population would never support a government and fight to get rid of the Taliban.

In the election Karzai won by such a large proportion that it is doubtful that the improper activities were responsible for the victory. Surprising to many observers was that Dr, Jalal actually got over 1 percent of the vote.

What was remarkable was that all the Defense Department and military witnesses agreed with Lynch on this point.

The government of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was totally corrupt and preyed on the Afghan people. See {629318}. The United States had committed to the turnover at the end of 2013 the responsibility for maintaining the security of Afghanistan to the Afghan military and police forces who were being trained by the Americans.

Karzai was totally corrupt and what was worse maintained his political power by allowing local Governors, mayors, warlords, police and judges to extort bribes for virtually all public services and in many cases extorting money from successful businessmen as well as even poor and middle class families. A large proportion of the money that America and its coalition allies were spending for economic development in Afghanistan was being siphoned out of the country by corrupt officials of the government. Karzai then was the beneficiary of the support of all these corrupt officials in rigging his reelection in what became an embarrassing farce for the coalition. There were others in the administration who believed that there might be enough persuasion to produce change in Karzai, and America and the Coalition had no other better option. Eikenberry not only predicted that there would be no change in the corruption levels, but that the average Afghan people would never really support and fight for the government which proved everyday to anyone who would look that the officials of the country were corrupt and had the support and green light from the President.

Heroin and other drugs are made from poppies as a basal ingredient.

This threat was shocking to coalition forces and NATO country citizens whose own soldiers were dying to keep the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan again. There were some errors made in calling in airstrikes in the Afghanistan War and collateral civilian casualties occurred. However it was often very difficult to determine if a target held civilians or insurgent Taliban. Very often Taliban sympathizers would invite Taliban into their homes to ambush coalition forces. However, Taliban would also force their way into a home and threaten to kill the family if they did not cooperate. Then they attacked from that home or several at the same time. From the point of view of the coalition forces being shot at, the view was the same. An airstrike would take out the house and no one would ever really know which of those scenarios (or others) actually produced the situation. Ironically, many more Afghanis were killed by the Afghani Taliban than by NATO forces in what was a brutal civil war. See {634912} for the American Ambassador’s reply to Karzai whose administration was totally corrupt and incompetent, making the coalition’s job almost impossible.