bushgang wants to make a deal with Omar (seriously)

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GK22Ag02.html

Time to talk: US engages the Taliban

Despite deposing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in quick time at the end of 2001, the United States has not been able to rid the country of the Islamic hardliners, who four years later lead an Afghan resistance that shows no signs of abating, let alone buckling.

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And now, most significantly, come efforts to deal directly with the real "problem" - Taliban leader Mullah Omar, the only person with the ability to influence decisions of import related to the Taliban
and their future activities in the country.

Reports emerged in the Pakistani media at the weekend that the US had contacted the Taliban leadership with the aim of establishing a truce in Afghanistan. The reported linkman is a Pakistani, Javed Ibrahim Paracha, but he has denied the story, saying he had never met any US officials, only US businessmen.

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The momentum for finding a strategy that will allow for an honorable exit is becoming irresistible.

Enter Mansoor Ijaz, a US citizen of Pakistani origin with close ties to the right wing of the Republican Party. In London, with the help of British authorities, he began the peace process.
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laughing madly at "only US businessmen"

let's see Omar, what could that strategy be? there's the oil/gas pipeline to consider.

[Brotherjohn]

1. Ummm... didn't the Taliban offer to talk before we invaded?

They simply asked for us to show them evidence that Osama was involved in 9-11 for them to hand him over, if I recall.

[Panda1]

2. Some of those "businessmen"

are interested in the bumper poppy crop.
Our troops are being used as security guards for oil and gas robber barons, and drug traffickers.

[No Exit]

3. It's not the first time!

Don't forget the footage in "Fahrenheit 911", which showed all the oil company politicos wining and dining the Taliban in Texas.

And if you don't like "Fahrenheit 911" as a source, just look it up at www.onlinejournal.com.