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We are lions, we want sovereignty: Karzai
Wednesday November 16, 2011 07:53:28 PM,
IANS
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Kabul: Afghan
President Hamid Karzai Wednesday said there should be limits to
what US and NATO troops could do in his country as the Afghan
people were the "lions" in their territory.
"America is powerful, has more money, but we are lions here. Lions
have the habit of not liking strangers getting into their house,"
CNN quoted Karzai as saying in a speech to tribal elders.
"We want our sovereignty from today. Our relations should be
between two independent countries," he said.
Karzai said the intended departure of NATO troops by 2014 was
"good for Afghans".
The president called the national assembly -- or loya jirga -- to
speak to the tribal elders on a long-term pact with the US
military.
The conditions he put out on a foreign military presence were
mostly long-held Afghan complaints.
He said a deal that enabled US forces to have bases in Afghanistan
was beneficial. But they would not be able to attack Afghanistan's
neighbours from inside the country, conduct night raids, search
houses, or arrest Afghans.
"I'd like to tell them they can't arrest any Afghan on our soil
and they can't have prisons. We have a justice and security system
and that is up to us," he said.
Hundreds of community leaders have been invited from across the
country to the national assembly. Troops, security officials, and
police lined the roads outside the venue on the outskirts of
Kabul.
The Taliban have threatened to disrupt the event. On Monday,
security forces killed a suicide bomber near the meeting site.
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