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This is another example of questionable steps our government is taking in Afghanistan when Karzai is not honoring the agreements he signed in order to get this kind of help.

KABUL: The US government signed an agreement here Thursday committing itself to grants over five years for development in war-ravaged Afghanistan that could amount to about five billion dollars.

The grants would go towards projects that include health and education, broadening democracy and building the economy, according to a statement released at the signing ceremony witnessed by President Hamid Karzai.

“Afghanistan has suffered three decades of destruction,” US ambassador Ronald Neumann said after signing the accord. “It will take a long time to fix the damage that has been done not only to roads and buildings but to institutions and civil society,” he said.

Afghan Finance Minister Anwar-ul Haq Ahadi, who also signed the document, said the grants were likely to top five billion dollars over five years.

“Approximately for the overall five years the budget is being estimated at 5.5 billion dollars and one billion dollars will be spent next year,” Ahadi told reporters.

It included nearly 500 million dollars for this year, he said.

The United States was Afghanistan’s “biggest supporter”, committing 3.1 billion dollars to the country by the end of last year of which 1.7 billion had been spent, he said. US officials were reluctant to put a figure to the five-year commitment with future grants still to be approved by Congress. Representatives Jim Kolbe, Mark Kirk and Fred Upton also witnessed the signing ceremony.

The United States led the attack that toppled the hardline Taliban government in 2001 after it refused to hand over Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the September 11 attacks.

It leads an international coalition of about 20,000 troops that is hunting down remnants of the Taliban and other anti-government militants. afp

Oh that last one is priceless. Where are these journalists reporting from, anyway? Who is reporting on Hekmatyar and Mullah Omar missing from the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list, and the fact that Karzai released the Taliban from the prisons, and allowed them to run for office in the Parliamentary elections while trying to bar/ban representatives of the Northern Alliance (our TRUE allies in Afghanistan) from doing the same thing??? The big story is the dhimmitude of the American government, totally downplayed in the media.

Shouldn’t we be asking some serious questions about Jack Idema, Brent Bennett and Ed Caraballo being held at Pulacharke prison when these horrendous amounts of “aid” deals are being signed? Exactly who is this “aid” helping when the Taliban is being supported by Karzai?

Parliament needs to be sworn in, because that event should mark some big changes, considering the Northern Alliance won most of the seats in spite of the Pashtuns standing in their way.

An agreement exists relative to U.S. combatants in Afghanistan, which includes U.S. citizens operating with resistance forces such as Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud’s United Front Military Forces (more popularly known as the “Northern Alliance” or “N.A.”). It is this agreement, signed in September, October, and updated in November 2001, in Khoja-Bahaudeen, and the Panshir, a “Letter of Agreement” which awarded status to military, para-military, and civilian forces operating against the Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists. Because the violations of Afghan law are being orchestrated against Idema and his men, yet the Karzai government is receiving unbelievable sums of money from the US Government for “reconstruction” and other BS, it’s important to look at the agreements that are in effect and have been signed and should be honored there.

President Karzai assured the United States his government would abide by those laws in order to obtain financial support from the U.S. and international community (i.e.: Italy). Based on those assurances by President Karzai, which the United States relied upon, Afghanistan obtained financial support and U.S. tax dollars for reconstruction, security, and equipment.

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