Afghan warlords sow fear

[dArKeR]

Warlords are creating “a climate of fear” in Afghanistan that is threatening efforts to draft a new constitution and could derail national elections expected next year, a human rights group said.

 IN A REPORT released Monday night, Human Rights Watch accused soldiers and police loyal to powerful warlords — many of whom are in the government — of kidnapping, extortion, robbery and the rape of women, girls and boys. The New York-based group also detailed numerous death threats against Afghan journalists and low-level politicians who criticized authorities.
       “If allowed to continue with impunity, these abuses will make it impossible for Afghans to create a modern, democratic state,” the group said.
       President Hamid Karzai’s administration has been struggling to rebuild this war-shattered country and extend the central government’s authority beyond Kabul, the capital. Most of Afghanistan is controlled by warlords who rule as they see fit and have private armies of their own.
       
ALLIED WITH U.S.
       Most of those now in power were backed by the United States and its allies in the war that toppled the Taliban in late 2001, and many still work as allies alongside U.S. troops now in the country.

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In the late 80s, Pakistan's then head of state, Benazir Bhutto, told the first President George Bush, you are creating a Frankenstein. But the warnings never quite filtered down to the cops and G-men on the streets of New York.
http://msnbc.com/news/632825.asp

[WindRavenX]

1. ...but we won right?

...We got the Taliban out so we won!
...right?
:puke:
Bush hasn't spent another dime on this poor country...we bombed them back to the stone age and we expect a thriving democracy?
We threw the seeds of Democracy down upon burning land and did not care for the seeds......