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Obama calls for better performance from Karzai

Afghanistan News.Net
Monday 2nd November, 2009

US President Barack Obama has told Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, that he must make a more concerted effort to end corruption in Afghanistan's government.
US President Barack Obama has told Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, that he must make a more concerted effort to end corruption in Afghanistan's government.

Mr Obama has also emphasised the time has come for the Afghan government to prepare to ultimately defend itself.

From the White House, he said he expects more diligent efforts to end corruption, an acceleration in the training of Afghan security forces and obvious benefits for Afghan people.

While Mr Obama is about to decide on whether to bolster current US troop strength in Afghanistan, he has been under increasing pressure from Congress and the public to do something about what they see as an untrustworthy partner.

Karzai has led Afghanistan since US forces entered the country in 2001.

He won an election in 2004.

His latest victory will give him another five-year mandate.
 

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Mouse
11-02-09, 08:21 PM

Obama says Karzai must perform better

The President need to get his cat together with all those promises. The unemployment is getting to high and lot of people are losing their job....Stop bailing out banks because they not helping the country. Let them belly up.Inspite of the bad siruation they still issues bonuses to their top Ex. officer.Need to stop that....

Mohammad Sharif Akhtar
11-03-09, 12:06 AM

National Planning Process (NPP) need to be strengthened

At this stage for Afghanistan the process of developing new strategic plans for a better achievements in each sector is very important. With having qualified staff in the government at all level, the government can get the trust of peoples. The planning process need to designed from butom up not from top to down. As President Karzai is in a good track of working he had good achievements since 8 years in the fields of (Governance system, reconstruction and rehabilitation, commerce, security and ...)But now what they need to do is the best planning and management process of the existed resources.

Thanks

Sharif Akhtar

Unregistered1
11-03-09, 03:21 PM

Ironic!

WOW good advice for both leaders, actions speak louder than word! Lets get that democractic agenda moving-Ya gotta break some eggs to make an omellette! I was going to say something about the kettle calling the pot B***K but poor taste.:o)

` ~galljdaj+
11-03-09, 04:36 PM

Wonderful ! Obama calls for 'better'...!!!

I too call for better, but I call for it from Our Government! I call for honesty, and respect for Our Constitutional Law! I call for Our Words and Our Actions to obey that Constitutional Law! I call for a better America!

The following Article is but one of many failures by Our Government, we have been treated to fine words from Obama, but Our National 'Acts' are a very much different matter!

The Article:


Havana. November 3, 2009



Agent Micheletti

Jean-Guy Allard

THE late CIA agent Philip Agee, who dedicated himself to identifying and denouncing his crimes after resigning from the agency, would have predicted it some time ago: Robert Micheletti, current leader of the Tegucigalpa military/business junta, has all the characteristics of a yanki intelligence agent, recruited at a certain moment by some Langley official assigned to the Honduran Embassy.

It’s important to observe the emotion that the future Honduran dictator had on July 16, 2008, when he was president of the National Congress, when he conferred The Great Cross with Gold Badge, the Central American country’s highest distinction, to Charles Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Honduras at the time.

This was the same Ford who a month early had rudely proposed to the country’s new President, Manuel Zelaya, that Honduras should provide refuge for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

For this act of servility, Micheletti called together members of the same coup leadership that conspired for 11 months to remove the legitimate president from the country.

Other officials present at the meeting included Vilma Morales, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice; General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez and several of his officials; the attorney general and deputy attorney general; the human rights commissioner, and the president of the Supreme Electoral Court.

The mafia was completed by the heads of the one dozen families who dominate the country and who saw to Zelaya’s kidnapping and expulsion to Costa Rica.

When, during this same period, the then-U.S. deputy secretary of state and undercover CIA agent John Negroponte visited Honduras, he paid particular attention to Micheletti.

The former Bush ambassador in Baghdad had just finished a tour that suspiciously took him to Guatemala and El Salvador as well.

In Tegucigalpa he visited President Zelaya, with whom he discussed the decision of the president to convert the Palmerola base, occupied by the United States, into a civilian airport, to which he commented, 'It can’t be done overnight.'

Negroponte later met in private with Micheletti, but nothing is known of the content of that extensive encounter. 'He did not disclose the main subjects discussed in his conversation,' a local newspaper reported.

But it is known that Negroponte –official CIA founder of the cruel 316 battalion – later had secret meetings with the president of the Supreme Court, Vilma Morales, Micheletti’s eminent accomplice; former presidents Ricardo Maduro and Carlos Flores, front line coup members; and the pathetic 'Human Rights' Commissioner, Ramón Custodio.

However, there is much more to Micheletti’s file.

In 1985, when Honduras was being suffocated by the imperial boot and – thanks to Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. – the country turned into a yanki base for defeating the revolutionary Sandinista government in Managua, the representative Micheletti was an accomplice to a parliamentary coup attempt when he tried to turn Congress into a constituent assembly.

The intention of the plot was to guarantee pro-U.S. President Roberto Suazo Córdova’s stay in power. Córdova was implicated up to his neck, like his master Negroponte, in the Iran-Contra scandal that involved the trafficking of drugs for arms.

Suazo Córdova was the 'little yanki' president who covered up a period of savage repression that is still spoken about with fear in Honduras today.

It’s said that in the 1960s, the present coup dictator was a noncommissioned officer in the Presidential Guard under Ramón Villeda Morales, whose overthrow marked the beginning of a never-ending military dictatorship.

As the son of an Italian immigrant, Micheletti’s political career would be truly inexplicable if he didn’t have some 'miraculous' connection. In his case, it was the U.S. ambassador in Tegucigalpa.

Is Micheletti a product of the diabolic machinery whose operation was described in such detail by Philip Agee?

There is much more to say about the hidden relations of the illegitimate president, from his weakness for the murderer and torturer Billy Joya to his affiliation with the Yehuda Leitner smuggling network to his connections to drug traffickers or the yanki congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, recently awarded by a branch of the CIA.

Micheletti has all the markings of an agent. Nothing is missing, not even the arrogance of someone who thinks that, no matter what the headlines say, he has the trust of his masters.


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