Canada, NATO Quietly Talking With Taliban

Posted on Friday, August 18 at 08:43 by rearguard
“ISAF hasn’t been approached by any faction of the Taliban,” said Canadian Forces Maj. Scott Lundy, a NATO spokesman. “At this point, no official involvement.”

However, intermediaries quietly got involved after Taliban leaders insisted on talks with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, or other international facilitators, rather than with the Afghan government, The Canadian Press has learned.

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  1. by RPW
    Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:35 am
    Because Karzai is a crook........?

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    "We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
    - Justice Louis Brandeis

  2. Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:43 am
    More likely because Karzai can't get the stolen house he's been assigned to in order.

  3. by Patm
    Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:10 am
    What? The Oil Company CEO overseeing the same oil company's pipeline construction and operation can't run his own company? errr... Country I mean?



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