Karzai Wants More Control of US Forces

Interesting. So is this just election season blather, or does he seriously expect results? We see how well getting local approval before raids has worked in sovereign Iraq. I wonder if he is going to demand an Afghan lawyer be assigned as oversight/liaison to every US interrogation center too?

Karzai Wants More Control of U.S. Forces

“No operations inside Afghanistan should take place without the consultation of the Afghan government” …]

Karzai said he was “shocked” by allegations of prisoner abuse by poorly trained U.S. soldiers at Bagram and vowed to raise the issue during his four-day U.S. visit that begins Sunday.

“We want the U.S. government to take very, very strong action to take away people like that (who) are working with their forces in Afghanistan,” Karzai said. “Definitely … I will see about that when I am in the United States.”