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President Obama for the first time mentioned the term “Exit Strategy” in an interview with Jim Lehrer. He said that there can be an “Exit Strategy” after there was a strategy. That Afghan strategy is in the production factory to be produced before the NATO summit in April. The “new” strategy places a fig leaf on the defeat in Afghanistan and hides the diktak from Beijing on leaving Afghanistan and solving Kashmir. The “new” Afghan policy is a culmination of various reports submitted to the Bush Administration. In order to put an Obama stamp of the “new” policy, the advisers of President Obama have given the region a different name. Bruce Reidel and others think that the new nomenclature will solve the issue.
New rhetoric and new names with a new focus will not resolve AfPak. What will change AfPak is an end to drone bombing in Pakistan, talking to the Taliban and a massive Marshall plan for the region.
The Bush Administration was already talking to the insurgent in Afghanistan. Pakistan has made a deal with the insurgent in Swat. Islamabad is also trying to duplicate that deal in FATA. The Taliban was a construct of the CIA and was armed by the CIA….
RIYADH: Western officials, the Afghan government and Taliban-linked mediators have been engaged in secret negotiations to bring elements of the group into Afghanistan’s political process, the Al Jazeera netwrok is reporting.
The talks are reportedly taking place in Dubai, London and Afghanistan since the beginning of the year and revolve around the return of Gulbaldin Hekmatyar, the former Afghan prime minister, who has been in hiding for seven years, to Afghanistan.
Ghairat Baheer, one of Hektmatyar’s two son-in-laws, released from the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan in May last year after six years in custody, is involved in the process, according to reports. Baheer was ambassador to Pakistan in the 1990s. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 while he was a spokesman for the Hizb-e-Islami militant group led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Humayun Jarir, a Kabul-based politician and the other son-in-law of Hekmatyar, is also said have been in involved in the talks.
Hekmatyar is the leader of the Hezb-i-Islami forces, a faction of Afghanistan’s Hezb-i-Islami party, and is purported to be in the northwest tribal region of Pakistan.
His forces fight alongside the Taliban and are considered to be a terrorist organisation by the United States forces in Afghanistan.
According to information revealed to Al Jazeera, Hekmatyarwould be offered asylum in Saudi Arabia, after which he would be allowed to return to Afghanistan with immunity from prosecution. The British government is backing that element of the deal, Al Jazeera said quoting sources.
James Bays, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Kabul is of the opinion that there is a possibility that these talks could be widened further so as to bring in elements of the Taliban.’ It is not clear whether the secret negotiations were aimed at separating Hekmatyar’s Taliban-linked faction from the group, or whether to encourage some elements of the Taliban to join the political process. Dawn. Western officials, Taliban engaged in secret talks By Syed Rashid Husain. Friday, 27 Feb, 2009 | 10:11 PM PST |
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Pakistan has been asking the US to engage the “Taliban” and the insurgent in Afghanistan in talks for the past seven years. The US Tin ear, high on hubris and short on sense ignored the please of the people who know Afghanistan well. Thinktankers and arm chair generals who don’t have a clue about Afghan culture, Pakhtun religion and Hindu Kush geography have been advising the occupant of the White House.
The Pakistani please for sanity were ignored by the West. Now the chickens have come home to roost. Imminent defeat and humiliation is forcing the administration to talk to those designated as “the evil ones”. A financial crisis and an ultimatum from Beijing is now forcing the US intelligence agencies to reevaluate their earlier rosy pictures of the area.
Talking to the “Taliban” from a position of weakness will not get the administration a good deal. Already Mulla Umar, the leader of the Taliban has informed the US interlockutors that they can enter into negotiations on forming a new Afghan government if the occupation forces leave. To rub their nose into mud, Mulla Umar offered the ISAF and NATO forces “Free passage” during the defeat.
Mullah Mottawakil, a former Taliban foreign minister, said the talks would fail if the plan was to split the Taliban. ‘It will not benefit anyone if Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president brings one part of the Taliban into the government, and leaves the other part behind. It will not finish the war.’
Karzai has long proposed holding talks with the Taliban. Should secret talks be taking place without his knowledge, it is likely to undermine him and further sour relations between the US and Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera has also learned this is not the first time in recent months that talks between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives have been attempted.
Last year, Ahmed Jan, an intermediary for the Taliban and tribal elder from Helmand province, was sent on behalf of the Taliban to Kabul for talks with the Afghan government. However, Jan was arrested after US officials discovered talks were to take place, and is now being held in US custody at Bagram, an Afghan political figure told Al Jazeera.
With the arrival in Kabul last month of Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan of the new administration of Barack Obama, the US president’s resistance to talks with the Taliban may change.
Ahmadshah Ahmadzai, another former Afghan prime minister, said trying to bring all Afghan parties – including Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader – to the negotiating table was the only option.
‘If Mullah Omar agrees (to talks) and those around him do – this is the real Taliban faction – then they can bring peace.’
Patricia Degennaro, a professor at the Centre for Global Affairs at New York University, told Al Jazeera that talks were a central part of ending the conflict.
Degennaro said: ‘It’s really important to at least test the waters and see what’s happening, and what response we’re going to get, which is probably what they’re doing right now.’ Dawn. Western officials, Taliban engaged in secret talks By Syed Rashid Husain. Friday, 27 Feb, 2009 | 10:11 PM PST |
APPENDIX A
The Enron Corporation gave the Taliban millions of dollars in a no-holds-barred bid to strike a deal for an energy pipeline in Afghanistan — wile the Taliban were already sheltering terror kingpin Osama Bin Laden!
Enron executives even met with Taliban officials in Texas, where they were given the red-carpet treatment and promised a fortune if the deal went through.
That’s the bombshell finding of an exclusive ENQUIRER investigation into the collapse of the company that ripped off Americans for millions of dollars. The ENQUIRER has also uncovered that some of the Enron money wound up supporting Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network!
“Enron would do business with the devil if it would make the company money!” said a member of a Congressional committee investigating the company’s collapse.
And Atul Davda, who worked as a senior director for Enron’s InternationalDivision until the company’s collapse, confirmed to The ENQUIRER: “Enron had intimate contact with Taliban officials. Building the pipeline was one of the corporation’s prime objectives.”
As The ENQUIRER revealed two weeks ago, Enron secretly employed CIA agents to carry out its dealings overseas. And a CIA insider disclosed : “Enron was wooing the Taliban and was willing to make the Taliban a partner in the operation of a pipeline through Afghanistan.
“Enron proposed to pay the Taliban large sums of money in a ‘tax’ on every cubic foot of gas and oil shipped through the pipeline.”
Enron shelled out more than $400 million for a feasibility study on the pipeline and “a large portion of that cost was payoffs to the Taliban,” said the CIA source.
Shockingly, Enron’s wooing of the Taliban continued even after Al Qaeda agents bombed two American embassies in Africa in 1998, andthe U.S. retaliated with missile attacks on suspected Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and Sudan.
“The U.S. was shooting missiles into Afghanistan, and it was clear that the Taliban were enabling Bin Laden and Al Qaeda,” terrorist expert Jeffrey Steinberg, editor of the Executive Intelligence Review, told The ENQUIRER.
“Nonetheless the oil companies continued to work behind the scenes to complete the pipeline deal.”
The pipeline project was originally proposed by Unocal Corporation.
And an FBI source told The ENQUIRER : “Enron and Unocal dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Afghanistan and the Taliban. The pipeline would relieve our dependence on Saudi Arabia — and Enron would make billions.
“When Clinton was bombing Bin Laden camps in Afghanistan in 1998, Enron was making payoffs to Taliban and Bin Laden operatives to keep the pipeline project alive. And there’s no way that anyone could NOT have known of the Taliban and Bin Laden connection at that time, especially Enron who had CIA agents on its payroll!”
Said an Enron company source, “After the Taliban came to power in 1996, Tliban leaders were invited to Sugar Land, Texas, by Unocal and Enron executives.
“The Taliban’s mullahs were given the royal treatment for four days in 1997!”
The visit was aimed at getting Taliban cooperation to build the pipeline, which would carry vast gas and oil deposits from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Enron had exclusive contracts with the former Russian republics, according to another former Enron employee.
The pipeline was to travel through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean.
When contacted by The ENQUIRER, U.S. State Department’s press officer for South Asian Affairs, Len Scensny, confirmed that a Taliban delegation visited Sugar Land, Teas, in 1997 to discuss business with oil companies.
Three days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Unocal announced it had withdrawn from the Afghanistan pipeline project.
But the CIA insider said Enron and its CEO Kenneth Lay held on, waiting for the Taliban to give up Bin Laden as the Bush administration was demanding.
“Enron figured the Taliban wanted to stick to their deal, that they wanted riches the same way Enron did.
“What Enron and Ken Lay didn’t understand is that it was Bin Laden who was calling the shots, not Enron’s Taliban friends.
“Now Enron and the Taliban are both goners!”
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln In 1821 
Solutions to “Obama’s Vietnam” 
Kabul: The Final Spring Offensive? End of NATO? 
Afghanistan: The writing is on the wall. Can Obama read it? 
UK Brig. Smith: “We’re not going to win this [Afghan] war” 
Failure and Defeat in Afghanistan: Inevitable Frustration & misdirected Payback for ally Pakistan
US Charge of the Light Brigade into Pakistan is a US failure and has to stop 
Pakistan’s do more list for the USA 
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan & Swat run by Taliban Huge Migraine for India 
Facing the Khyber poltergeist & Ganges hobgoblin 
NATO war: UK 1880 defeats in Afghanistan
“Charge of the Light Brigade” in Afghanistan AGAIN: Unfortunately the lessons of the unmitigated disaster of “Auckland’s Folly”, (First Anglo-Afghan War 1838–42) have not been taught to the Oxbridge students. 
Bin Laden used Reagan’s USSR strategy to Destroy US Capitalism? 
Cambodiazation of the Afghan war 
Rescueing the Pashtuns of Afghania from Afghanistan 
Unite! Erase the Durand Line 
Solution: Fixing “AfPak” expedites the inevitable union between Pakistan & Afghanistan 
