Taliban in Secret Talks at Mystery Location

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

The Taliban are holding secret unofficial talks at an undisclosed location in the Maldives, officials said today.

The government of Maldives, a tiny island nation in the India Ocean, issued a statement confirming the meeting.

"We cannot disclose the location of the talks, although we can confirm that they are not being held in Male or other population centres," the statement said.

Male is the nation's capital and one of the world's most densely populated cities. The secret meeting could be underway on one of the nearly 1,200 islands that create this archipelago off the southern tip of India.

What is also not clear is who the Taliban are talking to.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/Afghanistan/secret-taliban-talks/story?id=10700753

[rug]

1. That clears that up.

[maxsolomon]

2. So, if we destroy every Maldive island

then there won't be any more Taliban?

[wizstars]

3. Anyone know where Dick Cheney is???

[wizstars]

4. so nuke everything but the population centers...

...problem solved.

and you get Dick Cheney to boot.

downside? no.

[Robb]

5. Humayoun Jareer, naming his own price.

Hekmatyar's son-in-law, or one of them. He's probably floating trial balloons that amount to "How much money will you give Hezb-i-Islami to switch sides?"

Hezb is more about profits than prophets, to make a bad pun.

[Alamuti Lotus]

6. bad pun, but quite astute

[Stumbler]

7. In a related story:

Sources confirm someone you don't know is doing something you've never heard about in a location you've never visited. More details at 11.

[DRoseDARs]

8. This has to be the dumbest, most useless and uninformative news item ABC News has ever done.

Really hit that ball. Way to aim for the... grass.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Hangin' w/ The Dick?