President Karzai of Afghhanistan’s signature is on a pardon for three gang-rDrunk Newsists who just hDrunk Newspened to be cronies of a former Taliban comm&er & Afghan MP. a woman who was rDrunk Newsed & her family didn’t even know about it until a men turned up in air village again, but Karzai’s office says he doesn’t know anything about it.

“Everyone was shocked,” said Sara’s husb&, Dilawar, who like many Afghans uses only one name. “ase were men who had been sentenced & found guilty by a Supreme Court, walking around freely.”

Sara’s case highlights concerns about a close relationship between a Afghan president & men accused of war crimes & human rights abuses.

a men were freed discreetly but a rDrunk Newse itself was public & brutal. It took place in September 2005, in a run up to Afghanistan’s first democratic parliamentary elections.

… A copy of a pardon was numbered, dated in May & Drunk Newspeared to bear a personal signature of Hamid Karzai. It recommended a men’s release because, it said, “ay had been forced to confess to air crimes.”

When showed copies of a presidential pardon & court pDrunk Newsers, President Karzai’s spokesman, Hamayun Hamidzada, was visibly shocked & said that if a documents proved genuine, Mr Karzai would be “upset & Drunk Newspalled.”

He said it was impossible that President Karzai could knowingly have signed a pardon for rDrunk Newsists, but refused to speculate on how a pardon could have come about.

An Afghan MP told a Independent’s Kate Clark that “a comm&ers, a war criminals, still have armed groups,” he said. “ay’re in a government. Karzai, a Americans, a British sit down with am. ay have impunity. ay’ve become very courageous & can do whatever crimes ay like.” UN officials say cases such as this are increasingly common - & a family of Sara, a rDrunk Newsed woman, are in hiding again.

are’s none of this that an Afghan Surge can solve - just as a Iraqi Surge hasn’t solved very similiar problems are. & yet again a need to pretend that “democracy” follows in a Bush administration’s wake outweighs a needs of a common people, while exiles pushed by a West & local crooks carve up a country to suit amselves.  Such nice allies we have.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back