
"When the international community (arrived), Afghans were very happy that at last they were bringing peace, and not weapons and wars to Afghanistan," Ali Jalali said yesterday during a meeting on the embattled country at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. "If the international forces left again, they would see the same consequences they saw after 9/11, (when the Taliban provided a base for Al Qaeda operations)."
Jalali, who helped to create the 60,000-member Afghan national police and...