Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Obama's call on moderate Taliban useless - analysts

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KABUL, - U.S. President Barack Obama's proposal to reach out to moderate Taliban will fail to end the Afghan insurgency as it is the inflexible Taliban leaders who are orchestrating the war, not moderates, analysts said.

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Obama overture to Taliban seen as weakness

Kabul - Barack Obama's call for ''moderate'' Taliban members to be brought in from the cold has met with scepticism from leading Afghan opposition figures. Ashraf Ghani, a former Afghan finance minister said

''I don't know of a single peace process that has been successfully negotiated from a position of weakness or stalemate.''

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