US should shore up Afghanistan bank?

September 2, 2010 by
Filed under: Politics 

From the Washington Post

DUBAI – As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan’s biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.

“America should do something,” said Karzai in a telephone interview, suggesting that the U.S. Treasury Department guarantee the funds of Kabul Bank’s clients, who number about a million and have more than a billion dollars on deposits with the bank.

Seriously?  No.  Sorry.  The money tree is broken.  Too bad, so sad, bye-bye.

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