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LEAD: US Afghan envoy confirms talking to Haqqani insurgents
Deutsche Presse-Agentur ^ | Jan 22, 2012, 16:38 GMT

Posted on 01/22/2012 6:23:51 PM PST by Nachum

As if the Taliban wasn’t bad enough.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday confirmed a meeting with the Haqqani insurgent group, as signs of a dialogue between the United States and rebels continue to grow.

‘We had one meeting with Haqqani network,’ Marc Grossman told a news conference in Kabul.

His remarks come after US and the Taliban militants confirmed preliminary talks for opening an liaison office for the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha – increasing speculation of an end to the decade-long bloody insurgency in this war-torn country.

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Eventually there will be no one left to bow to.
1 posted on 01/22/2012 6:24:00 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 01/22/2012 6:24:51 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Liberals are such idiots. No matter that it never works, they can’t let go of the childish fantasy that you can work out agreements with tyrants and terrorists.


3 posted on 01/22/2012 6:27:29 PM PST by American Quilter
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To: Nachum
The president is hardly even pretending to be on our side any more.
4 posted on 01/22/2012 6:28:14 PM PST by Salman
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To: Nachum

Unless it’s a ploy to get them all together so we can kill the bastards... I hope this is a sick joke.


5 posted on 01/22/2012 6:28:34 PM PST by jessduntno ("'How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." - Adolph Hitler)
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To: American Quilter

SICK


6 posted on 01/22/2012 6:29:11 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (Let's get the hell rid of Zero)
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To: Nachum

Perhaps Anne Curry Roseanne Rosannadanna could find this interesting to report on a la Marianne Gingrich.


7 posted on 01/22/2012 6:31:52 PM PST by stanne
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To: Nachum; Flotsam_Jetsome; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; ...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
--Sir Winston Churchill

Thanks Nachum.

8 posted on 01/22/2012 6:35:23 PM PST by LucyT ( NB. ~ Pakistan was NOT on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list in 1981. ~)
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9 posted on 01/22/2012 6:39:09 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Nachum

Have we surrendered the 7th Fleet to the Taliban yet?

I wonder how much they know about boats?


10 posted on 01/22/2012 6:52:19 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: Nachum
His remarks come after US and the Taliban militants confirmed preliminary
talks for opening an liaison office for the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha –

His remarks come after this too...

Taliban video shows execution of Pakistani soldiers

Winning!

11 posted on 01/22/2012 7:03:19 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Nachum

Probably just dropping off their 2012 Obama campaign contribution. Cash or opium?


12 posted on 01/22/2012 7:09:52 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Nachum
I am looking forward to the Taliban being clear about breaking ties with international terrorism, denouncing it, distancing them salves from it.'

Another political person who knows nothing about the fundamentals of Islam.- Tom

13 posted on 01/22/2012 8:55:33 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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