‘US forces immunity not Afghan govt. call’

January 15th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

“The Afghan government cannot make that decision. It is the decision of the people of Afghanistan. So a loya jirga of the people of Afghanistan should decide,” Karzai said to reporters on Monday upon his arrival in Kabul following his meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington.

“We want our national sovereignty…,” Karzai pointed out, adding, “They (the Americans) don’t want their soldiers to be under the laws of another country.”

On Friday, in a joint press conference with his Afghan counterpart, Obama said that Afghanistan must grant US forces legal immunity if Kabul wants American troops to stay there beyond 2014.

The Obama administration is contemplating a plan to keep up to 9,000 US troopers in Afghanistan to conduct, what it calls, counterterrorism operations and provide assistance to Afghan forces.

Afghanistan and the US signed a strategic partnership agreement in May, which would allow the US to keep some military bases in Afghanistan after its key forces withdraw from the country.

Karzai, however, said Kabul would not sign any new security agreements with the United States until the prisoners held in US custody were transferred to Afghan authorities.

During the press conference, Obama pledged that US-led forces would hand the lead role in the ‘fight against militants’ to Afghan forces in the next few months.

The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the pretext of fighting terrorism. The invasion removed the Taliban from power, but the country remains insecure despite the presence of tens of thousands of US-led forces there.

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