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US Dollars to the Rescue? Kabul Bank is Shaky!!

Posted By mike On September 2, 2010 @ 10:07 am In News, Politics, War Criminals | 1 Comment

If there was ever any reason for us to invade Afghanistan, it got away along Osama Bin Laden when [1] Bush let the Al Qaeda folks slip away into Pakistan from Tora Bora.

Now we are in a really disastrous situation in Afpakistan, an area that is home to both [2] nuclear weapons and a lot of folks with [3] a grudge against the US.

I never expected anything good from the Bush-Cheney folks, but I thought the Obama administration might make better choices, but I have been disappointed as Obama earns his warrior scout badge by escalating the death and destruction in Afghanistan.

Too bad about this [4] Kabul Bank, though. Are we going to need to prop up another bank? Can we persuade Kabul Bank to merge with Goldman Sachs?

[5] clipped from [6] www.washingtonpost.com

Nervous Afghans pull money from Kabul Bank, raising fears

KABUL - With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation’s biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to [7] Afghanistan’s economy but also to the battle against the Taliban.

A swarm of customers at the headquarters of Kabul Bank in the Afghan capital on Wednesday raised the prospect of a full-scale bank run that would further alienate dispirited Afghans from their government and imperil American efforts to contain the insurgency.

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URLs in this post:
[1] Bush let the Al Qaeda folks slip away: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62618-2002Apr16
[2] nuclear weapons: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/sats-show-pakistan-super-sizing-its-nucl
ear-weapons-complex/
[3] a grudge against the US: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0202/Obama-ups-Pakistan-drone-st
rikes-in-assassination-campaign
[4] Kabul Bank: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090101620.
html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead
[5] Image: http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/
[6] www.washingtonpost.com: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/01/AR2010090101620.
html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead
[7] Afghanistan’s: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/afghanistan.html?nav=el
[8] Image: http://clipmarks.com/share/D57E9DC2-3B9F-4674-9EBA-2669A8B25BD9/blog/

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