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| Afghanistan |
| Karzai offers peace, Taliban free Frenchwoman |
| 2007-04-29 |
| The Taliban freed a French aid worker on Saturday as President Hamid Karzai marked the anniversary of the end of communist rule with a fresh offer of olive branch to the resurgent guerrillas. France’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that one member of an aid group who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan early this month had been released. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf said earlier the aid worker was a French woman, identified only as Celine, and she was freed in Kandahar province as a gesture of goodwill. Speaking by satellite phone from At a colourful ceremony in Kabul for the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet-backed communist regime, Karzai again pleaded with the Taliban to talk peace. “Today, while celebrating the jihad victory, we once again invite those who have sided with aliens because of seduction against their nation, to give up sedition and evil and join peaceful life,” he said. The ceremony was marked by a military parade that included disabled victims of Afghanistan’s fighting. US and Afghan forces killed 10 Taliban insurgents in Helmand, the US military said. A member of the US-led coalition was killed in fighting in western Herat province on Friday. A NATO air strike also killed 13 Taliban in Khost province late on Friday, officials said. In Ghazni province, Taliban killed two policemen and abducted three others, police said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I was thinking Karzai was throwing a French woman into the peace deal. "And, if you act right now, every Taliban who surrenders gets a French woman or a valuable mock emerald...But wait!, there's more!..." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-04-29 10:05 |
| #1 She was probably violated so much she can't walk or see straight. It's well past time Sarko retracted all French back to the home bunkers. There's plenty of Muslim targets on your home soil to keep you forever busy. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-04-29 00:42 |