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Former Taliban see opening for talks
GlobalPost.com ^ | 03/24/2009 | Jean MacKenzie

Posted on 03/24/2009 11:36:33 AM PDT by BeaPlourde

Access has been gained here in Kabul to two former high-ranking officials of the now-deposed Taliban government to hear their view of the possibility of an opening for dialogue.

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, who was the Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan, and Mullah Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, who served as foreign minister during the Taliban regime, confirmed in separate interviews that such talks were feasible, but that they would need to begin with a fundamental understanding that the view of this conflict looks very different from an Afghan-Taliban perspective.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: moderatetaliban; obama; taliban; wot
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1 posted on 03/24/2009 11:36:33 AM PDT by BeaPlourde
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To: BeaPlourde

obama’s ready whenever those two goons are...


2 posted on 03/24/2009 11:37:39 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emporer has no pedigree.)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

indeed! :)


3 posted on 03/24/2009 11:45:07 AM PDT by BeaPlourde
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To: Hegemony Cricket

indeed! :)


4 posted on 03/24/2009 11:45:25 AM PDT by BeaPlourde
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To: BeaPlourde

sorry! over zealous entering...didn’t mean to “indeed” twice!


5 posted on 03/24/2009 11:46:24 AM PDT by BeaPlourde
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To: BeaPlourde

That must be like a reverse “Murphy Brown.” For those who watched the show there was a running gag where her secretary each episode was always a different person. In his case the the people he worked for was always changing as we frequently killed them off.


6 posted on 03/24/2009 11:50:50 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: BeaPlourde

Will they be residing in the Lincoln bedroom during their stay at the Whitehouse?


7 posted on 03/24/2009 11:51:37 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: BeaPlourde

I just thought it was because there were two of them mentioned in the article.

;^)


8 posted on 03/24/2009 11:52:28 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: BeaPlourde

http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=0861ff3eabea1ceb73e4


9 posted on 03/24/2009 11:58:15 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: WayneS

I wonder if Dear Leader will pull his two girls out of school to respect the beliefs of his two new friends?


10 posted on 03/24/2009 11:58:34 AM PDT by Holicheese (Gimme Gimme Gimme!)
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To: Holicheese

Only after Sharia law becomes the law of our land.

He’s got to keep up his “cover” for now.

;^)


11 posted on 03/24/2009 12:00:01 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: BeaPlourde

The Talibs were stupid to get involved in a war against us. They chose to back Bin Ladin; they probably thought we were kidding. We weren’t.

By now, they know we’re not kidding, though. Still, all they have to do is give up Al Qaeda, and stop fighting against our allies. If they can’t do that, then we can keep killing them. Its their choice to make.

We shouldn’t let them impose Taliban government on Kabul as the price of peace with them. The price of peace should be that they turn over whoever they are harboring, and stop killing aid workers and construction workers, and stop killing American and Afghan government soldiers. Do that, and they can come home and return to private life.

If they insist on killing people, if they insist on continuing their “civil war” against aid workers and soldiers and the central government, if they insist on attacking school girls and teachers, then they can’t be too surprised when a hellfire missile comes through the window of their villa some night.


12 posted on 03/24/2009 12:08:21 PM PDT by marron
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To: WayneS

Thanks :) your right...that was no mistake! And also, I think it was the Queen’s bedroom...not the Lincoln


13 posted on 03/24/2009 12:10:26 PM PDT by BeaPlourde
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To: WayneS
they would need to begin with a fundamental understanding that the view of this conflict looks very different from an Afghan-Taliban perspective.

Hell, yeah. They don't currently get to go around whacking those burqua wearing females with their little sticks like they used to. They need to get back such a fundamental right, stolen by the foreign infudel invaders.

14 posted on 03/24/2009 12:13:08 PM PDT by San Jacinto (gorebull warming -- the Socialists' Shortcut.)
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To: Ev Reeman

That is quite horrifying, and makes me question why something like this is so open for everyone’s views and nothing is being done!


15 posted on 03/24/2009 12:13:21 PM PDT by BeaPlourde
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To: BeaPlourde

keyword FORMER..not CURRENT!


16 posted on 03/24/2009 12:14:33 PM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: angelcindy

Well, they couldn’t be ‘current’...there is no current Taliban government.


17 posted on 03/24/2009 12:17:40 PM PDT by tsmith130 (If I had wanted him to succeed, I would have voted for him. I didn't...so I don't.)
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To: BeaPlourde

I suggest you send a copy of that url to everybody you know maybe that will wake em up!


18 posted on 03/24/2009 12:29:38 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: BeaPlourde

All “former Taliban” are dead Taliban. There’s no such thing as a living “former Taliban”.


19 posted on 03/24/2009 12:34:56 PM PDT by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the hell out of the way!)
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To: BeaPlourde
Nice shirt.
20 posted on 03/24/2009 12:48:29 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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