KABUL, Dec 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Afghanistan’s former president, argued Tuesday that, Washington helped fuel corruption in his nation, by spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two decades, without accountability.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Hamid Karzai responded to findings from a trove of newly published documents that, successive U.S. administrations misled the public, about the war in Afghanistan.
Karzai said, the documents, obtained by The Washington Post, confirm his long-running complaints about U.S. spending.
The documents also describe Karzai, Afghanistan’s president for 14 years, as having headed a government that “self-organised into a kleptocracy.”
Karzai has denied wrongdoing, but hasn’t denied involvement in corruption, by officials in his former government.– NNN-AGENCIES
