Taliban Suicide Blast in Kabul Kills 30 = Possible Taliban Peace Talks ??

[L. Coyote]

Taliban Suicide Blast in Kabul Kills 30
By JASON STRAZIUSO, AP - Sep 29, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top10sep29,0,7985384.story?coll=la-ap-topnews-headlines


KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for peace talks and give the militants a position in government.

Strengthening a call for negotiations he has made with increasing frequency the last several weeks, President Hamid Karzai said he was willing to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and factional warlord leader.

"If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I'll personally go there and get in touch with them," Karzai said. "Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?"

Karzai said he has contacts with Taliban militants through tribal elders but that there are no direct and open government communication channels with the fighters.

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[opihimoimoi]

1. But I thought we won a victory there....Wha Happoned?

[movonne]

2. Gee do you think our prisident lied to us??? I can't believe that...

[L. Coyote]

3. I would correct the tense from past to present. He still lies to US and everyone else.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Thats all them Pubs ever do...to denigrate, decieve, and to steer us into small shit...never the Big

Picture of solutions

Ever notice this shit??

[Disturbed]

5. Afghanistan: Five Years Later

Afghanistan: Five Years Later
by Stephen Zunes


Barnett Rubin, America's foremost scholar on Afghanistan, described the country as not having “functioning state institutions. It has no genuine army or effective police. Its ramshackle provincial administration is barely in contact with, let alone obedient to, the central government. Most of the country's meager tax revenue has been illegally taken over by local officials who are little more than warlords with official titles.” According to Rubin, the goal of U.S. policy in Afghanistan “was not to set up a better regime for the Afghan people, but to recruit and strengthen warlords in its fight against al-Qaida.”

While women are now allowed to go to school and leave the house unaccompanied by a close male relative-­rights denied to them under the Taliban-­most women in large parts of Afghanistan are afraid to do so out of fea of kidnapping and rape. Human Rights Watch reports that, despite the ouster of the misogynist Taliban, “Violence against women and girls remains rampant.”
The security situation in the countryside is so bad that groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres-­which stayed in Afghanistan throughout the Soviet war and occupation of the 1980s, the civil war and chaos of the early to mid-1990s, and the brutal repression of the Taliban through 2001-­have completely withdrawn from the country.

Yet the Bush administration continues to be in denial about the worsening situation in Afghanistan. President Bush recently declared that Afghanistan was doing so well that it was “inspiring others … to demand their freedom.” And Vice President Cheney has referred to the rapidly deteriorating Afghan republic as a “rising nation.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld earlier described the new Afghanistan as “a breathtaking accomplishment” and “a successful model.”

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1014-22.htm

[L. Coyote]

6. Thanks for staying on top of this

[opihimoimoi]

7. Those GOP SOBs camardly build a new Nation when they are so good at destroying

the one they got. Idiots