US-Taliban peace deal rejected - report

News 24 ^ | December 24th 2011 | APF/Staff

[Cardhu]

Washington - US and Taliban negotiators reached a tentative deal last month to transfer five Afghans from Guantanamo to Qatar, the Washington Post said on Friday, but it was rejected by President Hamid Karzai.

The accord would have called for five inmates from the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be placed under house arrest in Qatar while the Taliban would have issued a public renunciation of international terrorism in a de facto break with al-Qaeda, the Post reported, citing unnamed US and European officials.

"Right now, things have stopped," a senior US administration official is quoted as saying. "Everybody is taking a deep breath."

However, talks with the Taliban insurgency, which a US-led force has been battling for a decade, are expected to resume in early 2012, the Post reported.

The tentative deal came after at least six meetings this year between US officials and a Taliban delegation headed by Tayyib Agha, an aide to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, the paper wrote.

Setbacks

German officials also met with other Taliban representatives, it said.

The talks appeared to reflect a shift in what both Western governments and Taliban leaders are willing to accept, amid lowered ambitions in the US over what can be achieved in the 10-year-old war and setbacks on the battlefield for the insurgents.

"We knew what we wanted - a statement against international terrorism" that would amount to a public break with al-Qaeda, the official said.

There would also have been a similar statement of support for Afghanistan's constitution "and an agreement to start negotiations with the Afghan government".

The potential deal ran into problems initially from US legal advisers who cited restrictions Congress has placed on the transfer of any prisoners from Guantanamo.

[Yo-Yo]

The accord would have called for five inmates from the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be placed under house arrest in Qatar while the Taliban would have issued a public renunciation of international terrorism in a de facto break with al-Qaeda, the Post reported, citing unnamed US and European officials.

So we are to believe that the Taliban, the same Taliban that has been taking potshots at US troops and planting roadside IEDs for the past decade, would publically renounce international terrorism in exchange for five prisoners?

Bull.

And we are to believe that Afghanistan President Karzai had veto power over an agreement involving the U.S. moving prisoners from Cuba to Qatar?

Double bull.

[JimSEA]

Karzi likely does have veto power over his weakness. Looks like he is making too much money and knows any deal to save his a$$ is a lie. As it is, both sides are paying him off.

[Flavius]

“you have clocks, we have the time”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Neville Obama

[Georgia Girl 2]

Just the fact that the US is negotiating with the Taliban for any reason proves our state dept is totally out of control. Its similar to negotiating with SA 13.

[conservativeimage]

Negotiating with the same Taliban that devised:

Yes y0u did.

[Popman]

"We knew what we wanted - a statement against international terrorism" that would amount to a public break with al-Qaeda, the official said.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

"Peace in our time"----Neville Chamberlain 1938

Damn, these people really are that stupid