Karzai: Al Qaeda Is A Myth Instead Of A Reality – OpEd Published by Eurasia : Yesterday marked the 14th anniversary of 9/11- the deadliest terror attack on American soil that killed nearly 3,000 people in a single day. The commemoration of this day came this year in a time when after nearly a decade and half of war against terror, Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan President, who had been installed by the Americans and guarded for years by American bodyguards at his own request to protect him, has doubted the very existence of Al Qaeda and has called it a “ myth ,” instead of a reality. Karzai’s provocative remarks come in a critical time when Afghanistan is undergoing financial, political, and socioeconomic turmoil, the situation which is believed to be the outcome of the failures he himself made and the opportunities missed over 13 years of his tenure as head of State. 9/11 changed Afghanistan into a totally different place than it was under the Taliban. In comparison to the