Posted on 06/23/2013 11:18:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As the Obama administration tries to salvage its Taliban talks initiative, the group continues to boast of—and exaggerate—the battlefield exploits of the “Islamic emirate’s” holy warriors as they face “the invading terrorist forces” of the U.S.-led coalition and their Afghan “puppets.”
Talks between U.S. and Taliban officials, initially scheduled to have begun in Doha on Thursday, were delayed after Afghan President Hamid Karzai reacted angrily to the way the Taliban presented itself at the opening of its office in the Qatari capital earlier this week.
Karzai was unhappy that the Taliban declared the office to represent the “Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan”—the appellation the Islamist militia operated under after it seized most of Afghanistan in 1996. The “emirate” was toppled by U.S.-led forces in late 2001, but the Taliban continues to use the term to this day. …
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Does 0bama still have an eye out for Mullah Omar?
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