August 27, 2008 (LPAC)--Prospects for NATO in Afghanistan are rapidly worsening, with NATO's two main land supply routes from the port of Karachi, Pakistan now threatened, and after Russian threats that "ceasing military cooperation with NATO" may soon mean the end of NATO's use of Russian territory for supply lines to Afghanistan.
Pakistan, a key supply base for NATO in Aghanistan, descended into chaos a week after the Bush Administration approved the ouster of Pervez Musharraf as President. American statesman Lyndon LaRouche declared, that in agreeing to dump Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, "The Bush Administration committed a strategic folly, despite accurate warnings that this would cause chaos in Pakistan." Large military shipments for Aghanistan that arrive at the port of Karachi are no longer safe from Taliban attacks on the two major land routes from Karachi to Kabul and Kandahar. Today, gunmen opened fire on the car carrying senior U.S. diplomat Lynne Tracy in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Since Musharraf's resignation as President a week ago, the coalition between former Prime Minister Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and Saudi Arabia's man, Nawaz Sharif, has fractured. Today, the Financial Times' lead story, headlined "Doubts cast on Zardari's state of mental health," reveals that Zardari's corruption trial in Britain was postponed in March 2007 because of psychiatric testimony that he suffered from dementia; was emotionally unstable; unable to concentrate or remember significant events; and suicidal--not strong recommendations for the Presidency of an important country. Pakistan will elect a President on September 6, and Zardari is the leading candidate.
NATO's use of Russian territory may also be cancelled, because of NATO's support for a George Soros-created government in Georgia. Soros, a British citizen who financed the Georgian government, functions as a subsidiary of the British Foreign Office. Today, both Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin and Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Anatoli Nogovitsyn stated that the supply routes have not been closed down, but Nogovitsyn added that this could happen.
Finally, Aghanistan's President Hamid Karzai ordered its Defense and Foreign Affairs ministries to review the presence of foreign troops; to regulate their presence with a status of forces agreement, and negotiate a possible end to "air strikes on civilian targets, uncoordinated house searches, and illegal detention of Afghan civilians." Karzai ordered a review of the weekend airstrikes and fighting in western Afghanistan, where Afghan officials say some 90 civilians, including women and children, were killed. Today, the UN representative in Afghanistan announced that a United Nations team has found "convincing evidence" that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in the U.S.-led air strikes.
