Friday, June 02, 2006

Counterterrorism blog's Bill Roggio podcast from Kabul

Richard Fernandez of The Belmont Club has a podcast up on the Pajamas site of his interview with the Counterterrorism blog's Bill Roggio.

Bill's been in Kabul for a few days. A couple of days before he arrived, a US military vehicle with bad brakes killed five Afghans and damaged about a dozen vehicles. Riots broke out afterward, in which about a dozen more Afghan civilians were killed.

Roggio interviewed residents of the neighborhood where the accident took place. He said he was told that the post-crash riots "were organized and staged by a group known as the Hazzari (not sure of the spelling)."

The Hazzari were, according to Roggio, "basically marginalized by the Karzai administration."

So the riots, believes Bill, were more of anti-Karzai as opposed to anti-American.

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