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    Taliban Denies Karzai's Claim it's Ready for Afghan Peace Talks

    By Adam Martin | The Atlantic Wire – Thu, Feb 16, 2012
    Taliban Denies Karzai's Claim it's Ready for Afghan Peace Talks

    Update (11:53 a.m. EST): The Taliban says it hasn't met with Afghan officials and doesn't plan to, CNN is now reporting, citing an email from the militant group:

    "The Islamic Emirate strongly rejects Karzai's remarks and adds that the Islamic Emirate has never met with the representatives of the powerless Kabul administration, and has made no decision to hold talks with the Karzai government, even in the future," the Taliban said in a statement e-mailed to CNN.

    The United States hasn't commented on Karzai's claim, The New York Times reported, after reaching out to the National Security Council for comment: "Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the United States National Security Council, declined to comment on Mr. Karzai’s statement, but has made clear in the past that there are many steps that would have to be taken before substantive peace negotiations could begin."

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    Original: The U.S. and Afghanistan governments have been in quiet contact with the Taliban, holding three-way meetings as the Taliban gets tired of carrying on its fight, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Wall Street Journal. But Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan says that the three-way contact was only "exploratory" and couldn't yet be called peace talks. The hard-line group leading a years-long insurgency in Afghanistan is ready to figure out a way to end its fight, Karzai told the Journal in an exclusive Wednesday interview: "People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time. I'm inclined to say that yes, they do want peace."

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    But Umar Duadzai, the ambassador to Pakistan, said in a follow-up chat with Reuters Thursday that consequential talks were still a ways off: "When there's talks, it's supposed to be between the Afghan government and the Taliban. We have not reached to that stage although we wish to reach to that stage." So the Taliban is meeting with the Afghan and U.S. governments in order to talk about how to start meeting with the Afghan government in order to talk peace. Got it. 

     

    5 comments

    • EUGENE
      EUGENE  •  3 mths ago
      just talking about how to split the new poppy crop three ways
    • secfiddle
      secfiddle  •  Doylestown, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      This is a no win situation anyway you look at it. Until you can get the 7 or 8 large "tribes" to agree to work together for the benefit of all, you are not going to have a stable central government. They've tried to tame this area now for well over 200 years and it's just not happening. The USA got their ultimate target, Osama, and his cronies so its time to get out and let the Afgan people do what they will.
    • ufo
      ufo  •  3 mths ago
      it all drug $$ oil$ usa all evil ....corporated bail out
    • solteroman
      solteroman  •  3 mths ago
      since when did we compromise with our enemies? no talks, full surrender only.
      • Med Aid
        Med Aid 3 mths ago
        Their surrender or ours? It's obvious after 3+ generations of current warfare, from the Russians, through the US, and now NATO, there's no victory in sight for the West, nor will there ever be. The only way to win this war is to level the whole country and start over. Unfortunately, this is not something the world will accept.
        The best we can hope for without a half a million troops or more in country is a negotiated settlement, assuring a more moderate, representative government than the past Taliban ruling elite. We have the ability to contain the Taliban and Al Quaida in that region and that seems to be a better way to go than the mutual war of attrition that costs us much more than we will ever gain. Gotta love those drones. A remote war against the Taliban command and control structure seems a better way to go.
    • Magic
      Magic  •  3 mths ago
      Karzai is a fool if ever there was one.
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