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Article: Karzai invites Taliban to talk despite city attack
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- August 10, 2009
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President Hamid Karzai said Monday that if he wins re-election as Afghan president this month he will invite Taliban and other militants to a grand tribal council _ but said they would have to lay down their weapons first.
His invitation came despite the latest, bold militant assault on an Afghan city. At least four Taliban fighters infiltrated the capital of Logar province, just south of Kabul, and fired rocket-propelled grenades at government buildings. Two police and four attackers died in the violence.
Such attacks have deepened fears for the security of the Aug. 20 elections _ the second presidential vote since the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001. Insurgents, who ...