Taliban In Secret Talks With U.S., Afghanistan

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Some Taliban leaders are initiating third-party talks that could lay the groundwork for progress between the U.S. and Afghan governments and the Taliban insurgents. In the video below, Charles Sennott of international news site GlobalPost.com reports on how moderate Taliban leaders are engaged in shuttle negotiations, and have been in contact with Mullah Mohammad Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taliban.

An agreement would call for a halt of Taliban attacks on schools and on those engaged in reconstruction projects, and the Afghan government would agree to release detainees and halt U.S. military attacks on civilians. Watch the video:

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by ralpherus June 20, 2009 12:26 PM EDT: Never forget- the jihad- or the struggle to be the perfect muslim consists of two things. 1: Kill all jews 2: Convert, enslave, or kill, EVERYONE ELSE. This truce talk is only to slow us down long enough for them to restock and clean their guns. Nothing else.; Reply to this comment

by Steady321 June 20, 2009 11:48 AM EDT

You don't negotiate with savages. Kill the Taliban then we can talk.

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by actornaught June 20, 2009 12:32 PM EDT: This is the kind of caveman anti-logic that's been around for over a thousand years.

How's that been working out?


by AJMarine12 June 20, 2009 10:11 AM EDT: by HolyVoice June 19, 2009 3:23 PM PDT

ONLY if they give up details of al-Qaeda operations, and the wereabouts of Osama bin ladin. Had they done this after 9/11, they'd be in a better negotiating position.

If they had done that, they would still be running Afganistan and we wouldn't be there.

Too bad they didn't.; Reply to this comment


by u-r-right June 20, 2009 9:39 AM EDT: So is this part of the transparent government idea Obama was talking about?; Reply to this comment


by Dgunner June 20, 2009 8:14 AM EDT: Modern day propaganda. I used throw leaflets out of a chopper door with the same crap written on it.; Reply to this comment


by sean58z June 20, 2009 7:57 AM EDT: Kabul should negotiate with the Opposition. Some of the groups may choose a truce. Those who prefer to fight could be located and apprehended with sophisticated satellite-based technology.; Reply to this comment


by fleabag75 June 20, 2009 7:31 AM EDT: You folks don't know when 'they' want something secret exposed to the whole world??? That stuff has been going on since man learned to speak. Trust me, the truly secret stuff you really know nothing about. It's these semi-secret secrets that the whole world hears about. It's called propaganda.; Reply to this comment


by ajjaxtheleast June 20, 2009 3:14 AM EDT: It could FINALLY be the official admission that,

directly, The Taliban had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

Would we sit down in "secret" meetings with Osama?

That sound is the Right's galoons
dropping on the deck.

The Taliban having nothing to do with 9/11 strips
Bush totally naked of any "truth" he'd fashioned
to embark upon his great oil crusade.

(A naked George Bush should'nt be inflicted upon the
eyesight of any human being,,,or even a goodly number of
the lower-than-average-human-being's animal forms.); Reply to this comment


by ajjaxtheleast June 20, 2009 2:51 AM EDT: ANY negotiation with the Taliban is an admission,,,,,

not sure just yet what kind of an admission,,,

,,,,outside of the admission that we probably
discovered that in the Afghan mountains we cant
run through them like a Toro through
your dandylions.; Reply to this comment