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Sign me up! (Insider Report).(government officials continue to be assassinated in Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
In an August 13th Los Angeles Times op-ed column, international affairs commentator Amir Taheri related the following Afghan joke: "Hamid Karzai, the interim head of state, signs a document and hands it to a man sitting across from him. 'Here is the edict for your appointment to a senior position in my government. Now it's your turn to sign a document.' The new appointee asks: 'What is the document that I should sign?' Karzai replies: 'Your last will and testament.'"
In so-called liberated Afghanistan, at least a dozen senior officials in Karzai's regime have been killed during the past six months. Ex-king Mohammad Zaher Shah and Defense Minister Mohammed Qassim Fahim have narrowly escaped assassination attempts. And Karzai himself "is so distrustful that he replaced his Afghan bodyguards with 72 U.S. Marines in July."
Now, there's an assignment unlikely to be highlighted in Marine recruitment pitches: "We're looking for a few good Americans willing to take a bullet for a pro-Iranian, anti-American Afghan despot." But such unappetizing assignments will be ...
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- Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates) August 19, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Amir Taheri, Special to Gulf News...that happens, however, Afghanistan could experience a post...Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, may have a good chance...His argument is that Afghanistan remains at war against...
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- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) September 15, 2003 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East August 22, 2005 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East January 31, 2005 700+ words
...murder. Both men had been what independent Iranian journalist Amir Taheri on Jan. 15 called "graduates of the school of terror set up by the so-called 'Arab Afghans' in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and belonged to the same movement that produced...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 20, 2004 700+ words
...December 1979, and Moscow had just sent 80,000 troops into Afghanistan. Mr. Carter declared that this particular act of aggression...probably summed it up best when, according to journalist Amir Taheri, he described the liberation of Iraq as "the opening of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 31, 2004 700+ words
...In a thoughtful article in the Aug. 23 New York Post, Amir Taheri recounted how Khomeini and his successors have translated...Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq and Shi'ite warlords in Afghanistan). Mr. Taheri correctly observes "the Khomeinist revolution...