Karzai warns Afghanistan could again be a terror base
Afghanistan’s president today urged the international community not to turn its back on his country four years after the fall of the Taliban, warning it could again be used as a staging post for terrorists to attack Europe and America.
Speaking at his palace in Kabul ahead of a foreign donors’ conference in London later this month, President Hamid Karzai said his nation would need assistance for a long time.
“We are in a joint struggle against terrorism, for us and for the international community,” he said.
“If you don’t defend yourself here, you will have to defend yourself back home, in European capitals and America.
“We take losses, Afghans die, the international community gives life for a common cause, for the safety of the world.”
His comments came a day after a senior Canadian diplomat was killed along with two Afghan civilians in a suicide car bombing in Kandahar city, a former stronghold of the Taliban in the south.
