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Article: AFGHANISTAN - Oct 18 - Don't Cave In To The Taliban.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- October 20, 2007
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As recently as Aug. 7, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan declares the Taliban a "defeated" and "spent" terrorist force, and vows publicly, together with President George W. Bush, to finish off the militia. But barely seven weeks later, Karzai has publicly pleaded with the reclusive Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, and a notoriously murderous warlord leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to meet with him for peace talks. Referring to them as "Esteemed Mullah, sir" and "Esteemed Hekmatyar, sir", he promised them government positions to bring them on board. The Taliban has shunned his offer and called for withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan as a precondition for ...