KABUL – Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said the US has deceivedthe Afghans and used the war to grow al Qaeda.
In his interview the former Afghan president said that Moscow has alwayshelped Afghans, even when its forces invaded Afghanistan at the invitationof then-president Babrak Karmal. We surely fought each other at thosetimes, but Russia used to build schools and hospitals in Afghanistan.
Americans lie when they say that al Qaeda emerged as the result of Russianinvasion, he said and added they used the war to grow al Qaeda. “They (US)wanted to be the only superpower and they did it, the USSR collapsed andone of the reasons was the Afghan war,” Karzai said.
Karzai said that the Americans deceived everyone again at that time. Whatkind of war with terrorism is it? The Taliban has more and more weapons…andwe can’t handle them without Russia’s help.
The former president noted that when the US had declared war against theTaliban, he had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that “something wrongbegan to emerge.”
Afghanistan has long suffered from political, social and security-relatedinstability because of simmering insurgencies, including by the Taliban andDaesh. The US and the Kabul government have been fighting a war with theTaliban since 2001.
Before that, the country faced nearly two decades of civil war, remainingdivided into several warlord-controlled regions throughout much of the1990s.