Karzai Intends To Press Showdown With Obama Over Security Pact, Aide Says -- Washington Post
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai will continue to defy U.S. threats to walk away from a security agreement between the two countries and plans to reiterate in a speech to a grand council Sunday that he will not sign it before spring, his spokesman said Saturday.
“They have waited this long, they can certainly wait five more months,” spokesman Aimal Faizi said Saturday of the Americans. The Obama administration has characterized the deal, whose terms Karzai had agreed to last week, as a “final offer” that must be completed by the end of this year.
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