American presence in Afghanistan is guarantee of unhampered opiates traffic...

[Simon44]

American presence in Afghanistan is guarantee of unhampered opiates traffic into Europe. It's been most embarrassing for me recently to look into the eyes of my European mates fighting bravely that influx of Afghani opiates into Europe. Quite recently one of them got killed.... Wella..... I've been on friendly terms with him for rather long and I know his wife and his kids.... You see I just lacked courage to tell him the thing I'm telling you now. While we are present in that damned Afghanistan with all our precious military bases and all our commercial activity the flow of Afghani opiates destined for Europe won't stop!
During those 12 years we've been there, opiates trafficking into European markets has become quite lucrative venture, I tell you! Some military and businessmen, especially the ones involved in logistics, have amassed quite a wealth! Just think into the simple thing. Those bad guys, those criminals are not set to change anything! They've developed the taste for hot money and they will expand their business. Most alarming thing is that they have really big potatoes upstairs making it possible for them to go on with this death bringing trade!
Unfortunately, not only small private companies are in the list, say some transport companies doing some minor supplies via Georgia in the Caucasus or other friendly states. Sadly enough, those are some big companies partly controlled by D.C. as well! They are also deep into this shit! Once some team of independent experts raided some ANHAM storage facilities in Kandagar province say.... just out of the blue..... they would make quite amusing findings, I bet you!

 

[waltky]

Karzai gonna be in cahoots with Iran...

Afghanistan agrees to pact with Iran, while resisting US accord
December 08, 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on a cooperation pact with Iran, despite continuing to resist signing a security agreement with the U.S., Reuters reported. Karzai made the deal with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran Sunday.

"Afghanistan agreed on a long-term friendship and cooperation pact with Iran," Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi said, according to Reuters. "The pact will be for long-term political, security, economic and cultural cooperation, regional peace and security." Afghanistan signed a cooperation pact with Iran in August covering mainly security issues, but Faizi said the proposed new agreement would have a broader scope. Rouhani said Sunday his country opposes the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan and the region, saying their presence generates tension, the official IRNA news agency reported.

IRNA quoted Rouhani as telling Karzai: "We believe that all foreign forces should leave the region and that the security of Afghanistan should be handed over to people of the country." "We are concerned about tensions caused by foreign forces' presence in the region," Rouhani was quoted as saying. He also called for more cooperation between Tehran and Kabul. Iran has long opposed a planned agreement to allow U.S. forces to remain stationed on its doorstep in neighboring Afghanistan. The two countries have about 580 miles of common borders. Rouhani also said Iran opposes any foreign forces in the region, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, where the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet has a base in the tiny kingdom of Bahrain.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, stands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, before their meeting at Tehran's Saadabad Palace in Iran, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. Karzai arrived in Tehran for a one-day visit on Sunday to discuss regional and international issues with Iranian officials.

On Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel laid out steps to beef up defense cooperation between states within the Gulf region, while at the same time insisting that America's military commitment to the Middle East will continue. In a speech Saturday to Gulf leaders he also made it clear that the emerging global agreement that would limit Iran's nuclear program doesn't mean the security threat from the Islamic republic is over. Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Hosein Dehghan called the remarks by his American counterpart "threatening" on Sunday, adding that they pave the ground for mistrust toward the U.S. while revealing the influence of Israel -- Iran's arch enemy -- on Washington.

Iran believes that countries of the Gulf are capable of managing security through regional security pacts. Iran signed an interim agreement over its nuclear plan with world powers last month. Rouhani has been trying to convince skeptics and hard-liners at home that the move was not compromising on key issues of national sovereignty. Israel has repeatedly criticized the deal and called it a "historic mistake," saying economic sanctions must be toughened, not eased.

Afghanistan agrees to pact with Iran, while resisting US accord | Fox News

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Afghanistan, Iran plan cooperation pact amid tensions with U.S.
8 Dec.`13 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on a cooperation pact with Iran on Sunday, an Afghan official said, while continuing to resist signing a long-term security agreement with the United States.

Karzai struck the deal with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran in a move that will be greeted with suspicion by his U.S. ally, which is trying to convince him to sign the security accord governing any post-2014 U.S. presence in Afghanistan. "Afghanistan agreed on a long-term friendship and cooperation pact with Iran," Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi said. "The pact will be for long-term political, security, economic and cultural cooperation, regional peace and security." He said a formal document would be prepared and signed soon.

In August Afghanistan signed a strategic cooperation pact with Iran covering mainly security issues, but Faizi said the proposed new agreement would have much broader scope. Many Afghans believe such a bargain with Iran, at odds with the United States since the 1979 Islamic revolution, may harm Afghanistan's uneasy relationship with its Western allies.

The U.S. bilateral security pact is a decade-long agreement that would provide a legal basis for about 8,000 U.S. troops to stay on after the NATO-led combat mission ends next year. Its future was thrown into doubt last month when Karzai said he would sign only if new conditions were met, and then only after Afghanistan's elections in April.

Iran has long opposed NATO's presence in Afghanistan and is the only country to have asked Karzai not to sign the agreement. Rouhani reinforced that message after meeting Karzai. "All foreign troops should be withdrawn from the region," he posted on his official Twitter account. "(The) security of Afghanistan should be entrusted to the Afghan people."

Afghanistan, Iran plan cooperation pact amid tensions with U.S.