*Karzai and the SCO

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai recently accused "foreigners" (UN and "westerners") of being behind the fraud in last year's elections. Now Karzai has threatened to quit the political process and join the Taliban. The American media is interpreting this as a man gone crazy, but in reality it could be a man attempting to cut his American, NATO puppet strings 
Read more at:
Afghan leader threatens to join Taliban - (April 5, 2010)


Marcel, one of my readers, pointed out a very interesting connection between Karzai and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) 


"Karzai just changed sides and instead of NATO he is now working for SCO. Not a bad idea from his point of view. 
Karzai was just in China and found out, that SCO is winning the war against NATO in Afghanistan. Since the membership bids of Iran and Pakistan to SCO came out a couple of weeks ago, Afghanistan is completely encircled by the SCO. Because Afghanistan has no own access to sea, it's not possible in Afghanistan to make politics against all of it's neighbors." -- Marcel

                                    Countries - SCO
My notes: 
SCO (The Shanghai Cooperation Organization) 
Members: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Observers: India, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan
Dialogue Partners: Sri Lanka, Belarus
Guest Attendances: Afghanistan, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), CIS(Commonwealth of Independent States)


Perhaps President Hamid Karzai feels a closer bond to the SCO? In 2006 Karzai said: "I do not think the SCO is anti-west as it is a regional organization. You have such organizations among the countries in the north and South America. In Europe you have the European Union and in Africa you have the African Union," Karzai told newsmen after returning home from China.


In June 2009 Karzai attended and spoke at the SCO summit in Russia. The issues discussed were on counterterrorism, drugs, economy and regional trade.

Presidents Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Emomali Rakhmon, Islam Karimov, and Hamid Karzai at SCO summit in Yekaterinburg on June 16, 2009


"The SCO has sought to promote itself as a "rising beast in the East" and an Asian counter to NATO.  One of the most contentious issues on the agenda -- and SCO agendas are typically dominated by Moscow and Beijing -- is the Manas Air Base on the territory of member Kyrgyzstan. 

U.S. forces have been using the base since late 2001 to support operations in nearby Afghanistan. But the United States has begun to wind down its operations there after being ordered by Bishkek to vacate the base.

Many see the Kyrgyz decision as the result of pressure from Moscow and possibly Beijing.

Both China and Russia backed a move by Uzbekistan four years ago to hasten the departure of U.S. forces based there for Afghan support operations.

Russia's pledge of more than $1 billion in aid to Kyrgyzstan earlier this year appeared to sway the country's president, Kurmanbek Bakiev, into ordering the Manas closure."

Read more at:   SCO Summit: "Beast of the East" appears to have lost it's teeth" - (June 16, 2010)