Originally Posted by satpak77

According to open source press reports, Karzai wants: (my comments in blue)

1. All afghan prisoners at GitMo released back to Afghan. Uh, I think even Eric Holder won't sign off on that. Unlikely this will occur. Not after our leaders saying that this prisoners are witnesses and critical for intelligence debriefings and future criminal court proceedings ? Now we are just gonna "cut them loose" to Afghan control ? Negative Ghostrider

2. Karzai wants to sign deal in 2014. His term expires April 2014. USA wants "by end of 2013" aka 30 days. Basic disagreement exists on timeline. Karzai holds the cards, it is his signature that we want. We want it signed sealed and delivered by end of year due to logistics and planning and clearly we want it done before he leaves office. I doubt this happens in the next 30 days

3. He wants all raids on Afghan homes to stop by US troops. The exception if a "direct threat against troops exists" or similar language. I have images of a sniper hiding in a home, popping rounds at troops. However as we all know, many of these homes are hiding places for terrorists, enemy forces, etc. Locations of potential intelligence and evidentiary documents, etc. We also all know that child-bombers and women are used to attack troops. aka "civilians" however with malicious intentions. Not uniformed enemy soldiers. Karzai is calling for "the killing of civilians" to stop. Good Luck with these wishes.

My crystal-ball says chance of security agreement even happening is minimal and chance prior to Jan-1 is almost nonexistent.