Warlords Quotes

Women candidates in Afghanistan are courageously defying the Taliban, warlords, and conservative social norms that exclude them from public life. - Nisha Varia

With keeping the tragedy of 9/11 in mind, it's the nexus between narcotic sales and terrorism -- that's the focus that the international community needs to get at rather than just get after the warlords or get after poppy. - Elizabeth Jones

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped. - Senator John Kerry

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. - Ted Rall

There are two main threats around the polls: warlords who want to dominate the elections through any means necessary and ... the increasingly active Taliban, who have pledged to disrupt the election process itself. - Nisha Varia

There are many Dostums. If you bring up records right now of warlords, you wouldn't find a single clean person in Afghanistan. - Ahmed Rashid

The elections were a masquerade more than anything else, as various regions of the country are under the control of highwaymen and warlords, and international observers ... cannot cover more than one tenth of the (electoral) districts. - Ayman Al-Zawahiri

The Afghan people need a government that is functional and accountable. The warlords offer neither. - Sam Zarifi

Seventeen warlords in Chechnya have been declared wanted and Interpol has been informed. - Vladimir Putin