The assassination on Tuesday of Ahmad Wali Karzai, President Hamid Karzai’s half-brother, smashes to bits the notion that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is winning the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban are now rid of the major pro-Washington actor not only in Kandahar province but in the whole south of Afghanistan – where NATO has been involved en masse to crush the Taliban in their spiritual home and favored grounds.
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