UN officials are claiming that outgoing UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Kai Eide was in Dubai January 8 to hold a secret meeting with the so-called Quetta Shura, a leadership council of members of the Afghan Taliban.
Eide refused to comment on whether or not the meeting took place, and so far the Afghan Taliban haven’t confirmed it either. Never the less, it seems this meeting is what spurred the sudden talk of reconciliation with the Taliban.
It does raise questions, however, of why the Taliban are so quick to dismiss the talk of the “buyout” plan. Moreover, Afghanistan has had a history of engaging in “talks” with people who weren’t authorized to negotiate for the actual Taliban leadership.
The Afghan government has also promised to convene a massive tribal jirga, inviting the Taliban to enter into direct talks with them. While international officials expressed hope that the Taliban would join into the talks (with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the London Conference), it remains to be seen if this will actually happen.
Why stop bleeding the giant, when the blood can be exchanged for GOLD..!! Those freshly printed dollars, guns, tanks, ammo, boots clothes. GASOLINE (@$400 a Gal.) beds, medicine , FOOD, toys, blankets… All the AID….it all can be traded for gold… Some die, some are snatched, some murdered, there is even prostitution… It is the toil of poor and undeveloped, but preferable to starvation in the lands of no family planing. Those at the top skim the most, those at the bottom [the ones that do the fighting] glean the least.. Maybe you would want the foreign Rambos crashing through your neighborhood in the steroid rage of xenophobic sadism…. How many rape murders is too many..??
How many executed schoolboys get noticed..? What message do we send…? What will we reap..??
London, isn't that just picadilly,since I guess they grow a lotta smack too down under,London,so I guess if those crows that somehow act lost ever come home to Windsor Castle,the airborn hoorroid sirens will wail and all the wear-? wolves,can all just move allong,just another day at the office
..so basically they've realised they cant defeat the Taliban…….