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  • US in back-channel talks with Afghan Taliban

    11/23/2009 11:57:10 PM PST · by gandalftb · 13 replies · 888+ views
    DAWN Media Group ^ | Tuesday, 24 Nov, 2009 | Azaz Syed
    The United States has started engaging the Taliban in negotiations through Saudi and Pakistani intelligence agencies, highly-placed sources told Dawn on Monday. He said that four “major neutral players” were engaged with the Afghan Taliban on behalf of the Saudi leadership and the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) of Saudi Arabia and the Pakistani leadership and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).The GID and ISI have been doing the job on behalf of the US government and CIA. The source said that one of the main objectives of the recent visit to Pakistan by CIA chief Leon Panetta was to assess progress in...
  • US ships Al Qaeda suspects to Arab states: Egypt, Syria, and Jordan may extract information faster

    07/25/2002 5:29:03 PM PDT · by aculeus · 13 replies · 472+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 26, 2002 | Faye Bowers and Philip Smucker
    WASHINGTON AND CAIRO - In the war on terror, the US is careful to show how fairly it's treating the hundreds of orange-suited Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters locked behind the razor-wire of the US base at Guantanamo, Cuba. But what the US isn't trumpeting is a quiet practice of shipping key Al Qaeda suspects to the Middle East for interrogation. One reason for this new approach, US officials privately say, is that in some cases these militants' home countries have a better understanding of Islamist groups, their contacts, customs, and language. But there's another reason, say US sources. These...