Hamburg - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called in a magazine interview published Saturday for an independent inquiry into corruption among Afghan authorities. Speaking to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, she said, "We have to demand more. It's in our national security interests to have partners in Afghanistan who feel committed to better governance."
She said a commission should be set up independent of the power elite in Kabul to expose corruption. The interview was released to other media, two days before the magazine goes on sale.
Clinton added that the US troops had no intention of staying in Afghanistan indefinitely, but only until the al-Qaeda terrorist organization had been defeated and the conditions created for Afghanistan to defend itself after a US withdrawal.
