{"id":29326,"date":"2012-03-30T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29326"},"modified":"2012-03-30T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:00:39","slug":"us-presses-karzai-for-arrest-of-former-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29326","title":{"rendered":"US presses Karzai for arrest of former governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

H1 sends us a link to the report that US investigators are trying to get the Afghan government to arrest a former governor, Ghulam Qawis Abu Bakr, whom they suspect of plotting the deaths of an American lieutenant colonel and his female aide according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Details of U.S. findings about Mr. Abu Bakr haven’t been previously disclosed. U.S. investigators allege Mr. Abu Bakr ordered the May 2009 suicide bombing that killed Air Force Lt. Col. Mark Stratton, 39 years old, and Senior Airman Ashton Goodman, a 21-year-old servicewoman working with him, according to a summary of the investigation, shown to The Wall Street Journal by the investigators.<\/p>\n

The report also alleges that Mr. Abu Bakr plotted to kill U.S., French and British ambassadors that November, and that he was involved in acts of extortion and corruption.<\/p>\n

Mr. Abu Bakr denies the allegations and doesn’t wish to speak to the media, said his son-in-law, Mohammed Iqbal Safi, a member of Afghanistan’s parliament. Mr. Safi said rival government officials were trying to frame his father-in-law, and have “poisoned the Americans’ minds.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Karzai has declared the case closed and without merit. <\/p>\n

“Abu Bakr is being protected because he is connected with the political parties that represent power\u2014in this case, Hezb-i-Islami,” says Jean d’Am\u00e9court, the former ambassador of France, which oversees security in Kapisa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like a job for SEALs or Delta. If Obama is as brave as Joe Biden says he is, it looks like it’s time for the US to use extra-political solutions if they honestly believe the guy killed at least two Americans. Not holding my breath, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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