No military solution for Afghanistan

DemocracyNow
February 10, 2009
Former UN Human Rights Investigator Cherif Bassiouni: Despite Obama Claims, No Military Solution for Afghanistan
At his first news conference, President Obama emphasized the importance of removing safe havens for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and said he had no timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. We speak to Cherif Bassiouni, a former UN human rights investigator in Afghanistan. He was fired in 2005 after releasing a report
criticizing the US for committing human rights abuses in Afghanistan.