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2008-10-06 Afghanistan

Extremely Salty: Taliban Claim Split With Al-Qaeda, Petition For Peace

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-06 14:30|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Turn over bin Laden and Mullah Omar, provide us Al-Qaeda targeting information, and cease fire in Afghanistan -- then we'll sit down and talk. No, wait, that's pre-conditions. How very un-PC of me!

Posted by Darrell 2008-10-06 14:56|| 2008-10-06 14:56|| Front Page Top

#2 #1 Turn over bin Laden, Mullah Omar and ISI head honchos.

You forgot the most important; Darrell

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-10-06 16:50|| 2008-10-06 16:50|| Front Page Top

#3 They should have thought of that in 2001.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-06 17:32|| 2008-10-06 17:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting though.

The big break in Iraq came when AQ's local allies turned on them. It is not impossible for the same thing to happen in Afghan/Pakistan. They are probably tired of seeing their young men tramp off on jihad, never to be seen again.

Fanatics and their western sycophants (ie Robert Fisk) like to recall Afghnistan's "graveyard of empires" apellation. The media culture's compulsive need to romanticise terrorists* notwithstanding, twenty-first century Afghanistan is really the graveyard of impressionable young Muslims.

*See "Guevara, Ernesto 'Che'"

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-06 17:48|| 2008-10-06 17:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Dare I hope? Yes.
Dare I believe? When I see results.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-10-06 18:23|| 2008-10-06 18:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Taqqiya

Posted by Hellfish 2008-10-06 18:50|| 2008-10-06 18:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Pakistan is triangulating and trying to get the best of both worlds. Keep their Taliban buddies alive and viable, keep the US from attacking them. If Al Queda has to go, so be it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-06 18:55|| 2008-10-06 18:55|| Front Page Top

#8 A second round of talks is scheduled to take place in two months, the Saudi source said.

I'm willing to wait until the Saudis have facilitated the second round before beginning any discussions. A terrible thing for negotiations, adding another party in the middle.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-10-06 19:32|| 2008-10-06 19:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Wow!! A truly Rafaelesque, Marge Simpson-like jaw-dropper. Hub-egh, Hub-egh!

Posted by Asymmetrical Triangulation 2008-10-06 21:13|| 2008-10-06 21:13|| Front Page Top

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