Afghanistan, US working on amnesty scheme for Taleban

[NNN0LHI]

Someone had better call Pickles and tell her about this.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2004/April/subcontinent_April532.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=

KABUL - Afghanistan and the United States are working on an amnesty scheme for Taleban members and followers of wanted terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Kabul-based diplomat said on Monday.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s cabinet, and US army officers the diplomat said, are drawing up the plan, which envisions allowing Afghanistan’s former rulers and Hekmatyar supporters to return to the political scene, jointly.

However, such a plan is likely to evoke fierce opposition from the current Afghan administration, which is dominated by commanders of anti-Taleban forces who ousted the hardliners with US help in late 2001, and from ethnic minorities who were persecuted by the ethnic-Pashtun-dominated Taleban.

Under the scheme, members of Afghanistan’s deposed hardline Taleban and followers of Hekmatyar’s radical Hezb-i Islami organisation would be divided into three categories, ranging from those who would never be offered an amnesty to those who would receive it unconditionally.

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[FloridaPat]

1. Gee, I thought they were either all dead, in Gitmo, or Pakistan!

Don't tell me our illustious leader lied!!!

[NNN0LHI]

2. I think the word Rummy used was "eviscerated"? n/t

[bemildred]

3. We seem to be seeing a bit of a climb down in

Faloojah, Najaf, Afghanistan. Rats are deserting the sinking
ship. Bellows of outrage and threats are coming from the
Imperial mouthpieces. Stay tuned.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Word has came down. You nailed it n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. I wonder if Bush had not illegally taken 700 million from Afganistan...

...would the US be in the position of having to cut a deal with the Taliban now?

Don

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Rather than being granted amnesty

they should be required to live under the same conditions that they imposed on Afghan women: virtual house arrest in houses with the windows painted over, no going out without a burqa and a female relative escorting them, no working.

[Miss Authoritiva]

7. Has this made it to US network/cable news yet?

Or, at best, will it appear as a disjointed crawl statement sandwiched in between updates on Michael Jackson and Laci Peterson?

[bobthedrummer]

8. Aw shucks, they only killed musicians for instance.

That's right, under the Taliban musicians were executed, just another sign of the times under fundamentalist religious zealot rule.

Plus, if this Seymour Hersh article is right, we helped fly out Taliban and al Qaeda to protect Pakistani military intelligence (ISI) operatives, who knows who might have escaped in the getaway?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HER206A.html