Deja Vu all over again................
Posted on 05/25/2011 10:29:03 AM PDT by Cardhu
The German government is mediating secret talks on German soil between the US government and representatives of the Taliban. Berlin is cautiously optimistic that the negotiations will deliver progress, but observers warn that the insurgents' morale remains high.
It's still unknown where exactly in Germany the American and Afghan negotiators met, but when they met can be pinpointed fairly exactly: at the turn of the year and on the second weekend in May.
It's also fairly clear who attends these talks on peace in the Hindu Kush. On the American side, representatives of the State Department and the CIA are taking part. At this stage, it is mid-ranking officials from the Obama administration who are involved -- a diplomatic ploy to play down the Taliban's importance.
The key figure on the Afghan side is described on the list of negotiators as a "relative" of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. This appears to refer to Tayyab Agha, a man in his mid-30s with a long, thin beard, who used to work as office manager for Mullah Omar when he was the so-called emir of Afghanistan. Today, Agha is something along the lines of Mullah Omar's personal spokesman. A high-ranking Afghan official in Kabul indicated around a month ago that Agha was in talks with the US on behalf of his boss. Similarly, the Afghan daily newspaper Weesa reported on direct contact between the Taliban and the US government for the first time a little more than a month ago.
Talks between the two sides, which continue to engage in daily skirmishes in Afghanistan, began last fall. The Americans chose the Gulf state of Qatar for the first meeting, but Germany had become the host country by the second session.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Peace with honor, eh, Hussein?
High Treason.
There is already an emir in Washington, DC.
BUMP
The Taliban promises not shoot the helicopters leaving Kabul.
Deja Vu all over again................
You beat me to it. Too bad tar and feathering is out of fashion.
F*** that.
I want to know if those W-88s still work. There is no place like Afghanistan to check ‘em out.
AND
the radiation falls on Pakistan. Win-win!
I don’t want to offend honest people who believe we can democratize Islam, but Afghanistan will return to what it was about one week after we pull out. Iraq will be even worse.
I agree - all this nonsense is just delaying the inevitable.
The Taliban live there they are not going anywhere and in Iraq the revenge killings for the collaborators has already started.
So all the lives and effort gone comes to this....
All this is happening because we have a muslim-in-hiding in the WH. If America would stay strong in its military response and POLITICAL response on the airwaves, then those overseas cowards would be eliminated. Obama and Obama alone is responsible for the deaths of our military heroes.
Yikes, still looking for the moderate muslim as OJ ( incarcerated but still looking for the killer) is still looking on all TV’s for the real killer. It’s an illusion, fools, there will be no hope for the women, goats and little boys when we leave.
Yikes, still looking for the moderate muslim as OJ ( incarcerated but still looking for the killer) is still looking on all TV’s for the real killer. It’s an illusion, fools, there will be no hope for the women, goats and little boys when we leave.
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