US supplying weapons to ISIS in Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai

File: afghan_660_112913050221.jpg (69KB, 660x554px) Image search: [Google]

69KB, 660x554px

Former Afghan president,Hamid Karzai has berated the US for allowing ISIS to start,development and proliferate inside Afghanistan.Karzai has often lashed out at the US over the past years and has attributed many mistakes to it.Much of the flak that the US has received is owed to their heavy military footprint in Afghanistan.

He added that apart from watching their growth closely, the US was said to be supplying such groups through helis. He said that locals saw helicopters bolstering those militants in the area.”Our airspace is in American hands.

In an interview to a Turkish channel Karzai said that some militant outfits were created in Afghanistan during US presence.”When it [Daesh]arrived it brutally went into villages, killed people – hurt our identity, tried to destroy our identity. Draw people away from their homes. They committed unbelievable atrocity against the Afghan people. The use was there.


Daesh first emerged in Shinwar district of Nangarhar. The United States has a huge base in Jalalabad, in the central provincial capital of Nangarhar. They kept watching it. While the Afghan people kept coming to us and complaining of how Daesh was behaving and doing things,”he said.

He added that apart from watching their growth closely, the US was said to be supplying such groups through helis. He said that locals saw helicopters bolstering those militants in the area.”Our airspace is in American hands. They have their radar, they have their airplanes, they have the entire airspace – we don’t own our airspace, the Americans own the airspace.


timesofislamabad.com/us-supplying-weapons-to-isis-in-afghanistan-hamid-karzai/2017/07