http://washingtonindependent.disqus.com/enTue, 30 Sep 2008 03:36:27 -0000http://washingtonindependent.com/8009/ackermankarzai-926#comment-2747577"an obscure lieutenant of the deceased anti-Taliban warrior, Ahmed Shah Massoud"<br><br>Come on...You should try to learn Afghanistan history: Karzai was a representative of the "Jabbah e Melli", a pashto party held by Mojaddedi. He was the representative of the party in Pakistan during the soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Then, he held briefly a post in the government of Rabbani (where Massoud was defense minister), but withdraw, and in 1994, at the very beginning of the taleban movement, he even gave them some money ($50 000?). But he said that he saw at the end of the year that they were puppets from pakistani secret services, and decided not to help them anymore.<br><br>He was never a lieutenant of Massoud. This is not some kind of Holywood movie like the one about Charlie Wilson. We're in the reality, a sad reality for afghans.bertTue, 30 Sep 2008 03:36:27 -0000