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| U.S. Says Afghan Peace Process 'hasn't Even Begun' |
| 2013-01-18 |
| [An Nahar] A real grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan has not begun and the United States does not know what has happened to Taliban prisoners released by Pakistain, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul said Thursday. Pakistain said 26 prisoners were freed late last year in a bid to kick-start peace talks ahead of the withdrawal of U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops from Afghanistan, whose government is under pressure from an 11-year Taliban insurgency. "We don't know, frankly, what has happened to the people that the Paks have released," ambassador James Cunningham told a news briefing. "We would have preferred to have greater visibility into that, but still it's positive that they were released, I think, from the Afghan point of view." With the control of prisoners in Afghanistan a major issue between the U.S. and the government of 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... , Cunningham said some freed prisoners had returned to Taliban ranks in senior positions in the past. A grinding of the peace processor "hasn't even really begun", he said. "Our goal is the beginning, if not the conclusion of, a serious process on peace and reconciliation as soon as possible -- but so far it hasn't proven possible... to get that going," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Peace process hasn't begun yet? Champ too busy covering up cat scat back home? Champ is re-launching his campaign apparatchicks who elected him for the coming fight against the NRA back home. All other cans get kicked down the road for awhile. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-01-18 10:30 |