Shanghai Cooperation Organization emblem: Chinese and Russian inscriptions only. The lack of English is no mistake.

June 16, 2006 -- The Bush regime's puppet in Kabul showed signs of independence by attending the recent summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Shanghai. SCO is viewed increasingly as a rival to the United States' flimsy NATO/Coalition of the Willing rag tag band of dictatorships, beggar nations, puppets, and neo-con governments like Poland, Britain, Denmark, and Ukraine. Hamid Karzai attended the Shanghai summit as a guest. Other nations represented as full members were Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Observers in attendance, who may become full members, were Iran, India, Pakistan, and Mongolia. Belarus is also interested in membership as an observer. The neo-cons, including uber-fascist Robert Kagan, have expressed concern that SCO will soon include Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other countries threatened by U.S./neocon control and become a new Warsaw Pact of nations that will collectively defend themselves from future American aggression. It is clear that Karzai, if he hopes to avoid hanging from the end of a rope one day, sees SCO as an attractive alternative to Bush's pathetic "Coalition of the Dwindling."

Shanghai Cooperation Organization emblem: Chinese and Russian inscriptions only. The lack of English is no mistake.

***Wayne Madsen Report***