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Afghan Taliban dismiss 'symbolic' US troop announcement
[Dawn] The Taliban dismissed President Barack B.O.Obama's announcement of US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan as "only as a symbolic step," in a statement released Thursday. The Taliban "consider this announcement, which currently withdraws 10,000 soldiers this year, only as a symbolic step which will never satisfy the war-weary international community or the American people," it said. The statement, emailed to media by Taliban front man Tariq Ghazniwal, also accused the United States of "repeatedly giving false hopes to its nation about ending this war and claiming baselessly about victory". The Taliban said the solution to the Afghan crisis "lies in the full withdrawal of all foreign troops immediately" and said that until that happened "our armed struggle will increase from day to day". It made no reference to contacts with the Americans. Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... announced last week talks were underway and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said US officials are involved in preliminary talks with the Taliban. The Islamic fascisti accused Obama of having "no respect" for demands to end the war given US-Afghan government negotiations over a strategic partnership agreement which will forge a long-term relationship between the two. Obama announced Wednesday that 10,000 US troops would leave Afghanistan this year and all 33,000 forces sent as part of a surge ordered in late 2009 would be home by next summer. As he made the announcement, he said that "the tide of war is receding" and "the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance." Posted by: Fred 2011-06-24 |
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