Mullah Omar to be provided security in Afghanistan: Karzai
The US-backed Karzai said Afghan envoys had made repeated trips to the Gulf kingdom and to neighbouring Pakistan to facilitate the negotiations. "Since two years I have been sending letters and messages to the Saudi Arabian king and requested him, as a world Muslim leader, to help us bring peace in Afghanistan," Karzai told a news conference.
"The preparation for negotiations is going on, on a daily basis. Our envoys travelled many times to Saudi Arabia and to Pakistan, but the discussions have not started yet. We hope that it happens soon."
Karzai's comments come two days after Britain's Observer newspaper reported the Taliban were in secret negotiations brokered by Saudi King Abdullah to end the conflict in Afghanistan.
In September 2007, the Afghan president said for the first time that he was ready to talk to Mullah Mohammed Omar, after earlier saying that he wanted negotiations with lower-level militant leaders.
Karzai made a fresh appeal on Tuesday for Omar and others to come to the negotiating table. "We are trying so that our brothers, those Afghan Taliban who have taken the gun against their people and country, and their leader Mullah Omar, can return back to their country and work for peace," Karzai said.
Mullah Omar needs to have an unfortuate accident or a sudden bout of lead poisoning if he shows up in Kabul.
Karzai is making a mistake. Mullah Omar cannot be made an ally.
“We will make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them.” - President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001
I doubt if Omar’s had a religious conversion lately.