Taliban rejects UN’s idea to buy them off in Afghanistan

by Infidelesto on January 28, 2010 · Comments

Holding out for an extra billion?

Yesterday we reported that the UN backed by the US and Britain were in secret negotiations with the Taliban to buy them off with millions of dollars in order to bring them into the fold and re-legitimize them.

API is now reporting that the Taliban are rejecting that notion.

The Afghan Taliban described an international effort to include moderate insurgents in the national reconstruction effort as misguided.  On Thursday London hosted an international conference on Afghanistan, bringing Afghan President Hamid Karzai together with world leaders, including U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The delegates at the conference announced a plan to bring low- and mid-level Taliban into the international effort to rebuild Afghanistan.  The effort is modeled in part on the Sons of Iraq program, where Washington put insurgents on its payroll to fight the growing al-Qaida influence in Iraq.  The Taliban discounted the effort, saying it was a trick by the international community, Pakistani newspaper The News International reports.

“They think the mujahedin will be enticed by money or by positions of power,” a Taliban statement read. “Such thoughts are baseless and futile and have no truth.”

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to the region, said there was no discussion of an amnesty for the Taliban, stressing the immediate aim was to end the fighting.  The Taliban statement said that the only way to end the conflict in Afghanistan was through the departure of foreign military forces.

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  • greg_o
    If they wanted to they could practice taqiyya to take the money, then they would just buy more and better weapons with it. Stupid ass american government.
  • mazabdul
    CIA used to be pretty good at throwing fecal matter up in the air. They could get on the ground, train, arm and fund a militia and be home by Leno (back in it's original slot). The Special Activities Division saved America many a tiresome and expensive war. And now look at us. We send a couple million in do what briefcases of money and sniper rifles could have just as easily taken care of. This country was made great by Cold-War era spooks. Where did the cloak-and-dagger go? It's all gone, and it's a sad day for America when we have to pretend we want countries to be democratic rather than just that they stop bugging us
  • Autumn_Auburn
    Of course, it's all or nothing with them. "Negotiation" is not in their vocabulary.
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