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Afghan President Hamid Karzai allegedly believes that the U.S. is behind insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, a sentiment that reveals how poor relations between Washington and Kabul have become, and one that is infuriating U.S. officials. Even the Taliban isn't willing to share the credit with America.

According to people close to Karzai, who spoke to The Washington Post on condition of anonymity, the Afghan leader is compiling a list of Taliban strikes he believes the U.S. orchestrated in order to weaken his government and distract from American drone strikes that have killed local civilians. Civilian drone strike deaths have been a point of contention, understandably and publicly, for Karzai.

Though Karzai hasn't been shy about his occasional anti-Americanism in the past, his accusations against the U.S. have greatly accelerated over the past weeks. Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that the Afghan government distributed a Taliban-like dossier showing graphic images and video of attacks on civilians supposedly carried out by U.S. troops. The Times found at least two of the images to have been recycled from earlier events, rather than resulting from a recent strike as the propaganda material claimed:

In an apparent effort to demonize their American backers, a coterie of Afghan officials appears to have crossed a line that deeply troubles Western officials here: They falsely represented at least some of the evidence in the dossier, and distributed other material whose provenance, at best, could not be determined. An examination of the dossier by The New York Times also revealed that much of the same material was posted on a Taliban website last week, a rare instance of the militant group’s political speech matching that of the government it is fighting to topple.

The misleading information was, according to officials, passed around to explain to the Afghan people why Karzai is holding off on signing a long-term security agreement with the U.S., which would order some U.S. forces to extend their stay in the country to guard the government from falling into the Taliban's hands. In November, Karzai announced that he would serve out his term, through April, without signing an agreement, leaving his successor to decide how to proceed. The dossier could also be a type of overture towards the Taliban itself — essentially a preliminary way of reaching out for peace negotiations.