Epstein Secrets

ressure on the Northern Alliance during the Bonn Conference. They made sure that their Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara allies would accept the leadership of Hamid Karzai, with whom they did not want to share power at first. On this issue again, the US and Iran were having the same vision: a more centralised Afghanist

supremacists. In fact, as Afghan trade is now very dependent on Iran, to close the Iran- Afghanistan border would be enough to put great pressure on Karzai68. By talking to the neo- Taliban, the Iranians are doing no more than what the Americans, the Pakistanis, and even the Russians69 are already doing,

ously, the fear of Afghanistan becoming a safe haven for enemies planning attacks is also an Iranian concern. And the fact is that the US Ambassador Ryan Crocker quickly contradicted Rassoul, when he said: 'There is nothing in this agreement that precludes the right of self-defence for either party and if th

hment writ broadly..." Crocker told interviewers from the government that he felt "a sense of futility": "I was struck by something [then-president Hamid] Karzai said and repeated a number of times during my tenure, which is that the West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility

West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility to bear for the whole corruption issue," he explained. "I always thought Karzai had a point, that you just cannot put those amounts of money Page 17750 EFTA00047261 into a very fragile state and society, and not have it fuel

America: Follow the money. "Our biggest single project, sadly and inadvertently, of course, may have been the development of mass corruption," said Ryan Crocker, who twice served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul, in 2002 and again from 2011 to 2012. "Once it gets to the level I saw, when I was out there,

hment writ broadly..." Crocker told interviewers from the government that he felt "a sense of futility": "I was struck by something [then-president Hamid] Karzai said and repeated a number of times during my tenure, which is that the West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility

West, led by the U.S., in his clear view, had a significant responsibility to bear for the whole corruption issue," he explained. "I always thought Karzai had a point, that you just cannot put those amounts of money into a very fragile state and society, and not have it fuel corruption. ... You just ca

America: Follow the money. "Our biggest single project, sadly and inadvertently, of course, may have been the development of mass corruption," said Ryan Crocker, who twice served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul, in 2002 and again from 2011 to 2012. "Once it gets to the level I saw, when I was out there, i