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To: Dayuhan who wrote (28539)	2/9/2004 8:46:52 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

By all accounts I’ve seen, Afghans enjoyed more freedom under the Taraki and Karmal governments than they ever had in the past, even if those rulers were Russian puppets. Would you say that Afghans had more freedom under the Taliban – at which point they were free from foreign domination - than they did under those governments? Since they now have a puppet government again, are they now un-free? After the Taliban was overthrown, the UN called for a loya jirga to organize a new government in Afghanistan. 1000 of 1500 loya jirga delegates were locally elected, the rest were tribal elders. The loya jirga then elected Hamid Karzai President and drafted a new constituion. I think its way offbase to equate as moral equivalents the present government of Afghanistan and the Soviet puppets who ruled Kabul. AFGHANISTAN'S LOYA JIRGA SPECIAL REPORT In December 2001, in the midst of the US-led rout of the Taliban, the United Nations brokered the so-called Bonn Agreement – named for the city where the agreement was signed – creating a roadmap for the development of a new government in Afghanistan. Central to the process laid out in the agreement was the convening of an Emergency Loya Jirga, or traditional Afghan Grand Council. Participants in the Bonn talks selected a Special Independent Commission for the Convening of the Emergency Loya Jirga, which was given final authority for determining the procedures and number of participants in the Loya Jirga. Per the Commission's plan, some 1,500 delegates were sent to the Loya Jirga on June 10. The Loya Jirga elected Hamid Karzai June 13 to head the Transitional Government it had been called on to create. Six days later, at the closing of the Loya Jirga, Karzai announced the makeup of his cabinet. eurasianet.org Loya Jirga Approves New Afghan Constitution Monday, January 5, 2004 unwire.org