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negotiators and United States officials meeting in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., finalized on Saturday clauses to be included in a draft agreement to end the 17-year-old Afghan war, according to Taliban sources.
Details provided by the sources to Rooters include apparent concessions from both sides, with foreign forces to be withdrawn from the country in 18 months from the future signing of the deal.
US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is heading to Afghan capital Kabul to brief President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..after the end of the six-day talks, the sources and a diplomat said.
It is unclear whether a joint statement will be issued, or whether the provisions have been fully accepted by the US side.
US embassy officials in Kabul were not available to comment.
According to the Taliban sources, the hardline group offered assurances that Afghanistan will not be allowed to be used by al-Qaeda and ISIS bully boy bully boyz to attack the United States and its allies - a key early demand of Washington.
The Taliban says that they will finalize a timeline for a ceasefire in Afghanistan but will only open talks with Afghan representatives once the ceasefire is implemented.
Other clauses include a deal over the exchange and release of prisoners from the warring sides, the removal of an international travel ban on several Taliban leaders by the United States and the prospect of an interim Afghan government after the ceasefire is struck, the Taliban sources said.