Obama Throws Karzai Under the Bus

Say "Hi" to Grammy Obama while you're under there Hamid.

Officials in the US State Department, Department of Defence and National Security Council are now openly questioning Mr Karzai's ability to rein in corruption, improve law and order and confront the warlords who control the country's deadly opium trade.

Sources close to the U.S administration last night denied they will pressurise President Karzai to stand down but said they will offer tacit support to candidates standing against him.

Their opposition to a second term for Mr Karzai emerged after Afghanistan's Election Commission announced a delay in the presidential election from April 22, four weeks before his term expires, to August 22.