Kharzai is practically begging for "peace," lest he be overthrown soon!
What bothers me is the concealment and lying of the U.S. and NATO's massive loss in Afghanistan.
The war has been lost, folks, and all that was accomplished was the deaths of a lot of innocent people!
You proud enough now, Amurkn mass-murderers?
"Talks with Taliban reportedly on the rise" by Rahim Faiez/Associated Press November 23, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that his government has had increasing contact with Taliban insurgents this year, including several talks this week with militant leaders living in exile.
As they move in on you, 'eh, Karzai?
Afghanistan is Slipping Away
Karzai said militants in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have increasingly approached the government in the past eight months, even as the country goes through its most violent phase since the ouster of the Taliban after the US-led invasion in 2001.
Karzai, who did not specify which leaders he had spoken to or where the discussions took place, told reporters in Kabul after meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer:
"Only this week I've had more than five or six major contacts, approaches, by the leadership of the Taliban trying to find out if they can come back to Afghanistan. We are willing to talk. Those of the Taliban who are not part of Al Qaeda or the terrorist networks, who do not want to be violent against the Afghan people . . . those elements are welcome."
I think Karzai is lying! He's losing, so he is begging for a cease-fire truce!
In the past, Karzai has offered to hold talks with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and to give militants positions in government in exchange for peace. Omar has rejected those offers.
Afghan and Western officials contend that many Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders are organizing militant activities across the border in the lawless tribal regions of Pakistan. Pakistan says its doing its best to quell the insurgency.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in insurgency-related violence in 2007, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Western and Afghan officials.
That's another 200 in just a couple of weeks!
Really would have had to dig to find it in the garbage AmeriKan press!
De Hoop Scheffer, meanwhile, said NATO has "worked hard" to change its procedures in order to avoid civilian deaths, following UN criticism that NATO troops were behind an alarming number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan:
"I never met a NATO soldier . . . who will intentionally kill an innocent Afghan civilian."
No, they will just call in air raids and let the planes do it, right, murderer?!
Courtesy of the U.S. military's 75 air raids a day, and five-fold increase in air bombings.
Meanwhile, the N.Y. Times proves just what a government mouthpiece it is with this feel-good Thanksgiving Day plate of shit:
Thanksgiving and a Mission Unite Diverse Forces
The bloggers are right!
Everyone Knows About the New York Times
The New York Times' McClellanGate Watch
The N.Y. Times is nothing more than an organ of government propaganda!!!!
A real piece of shit!
Need more confirmation of their shit lies?
Nato defends Afghanistan tactics
"Nato defends Afghanistan tactics" by David Loyn/BBC News, Kabul
Nato head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says its forces are doing all they can to avoid Afghan civilian casualties. After a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, he said that Nato forces had changed their procedure to reduce the threat to civilians.
The UN too has expressed alarm at the number of civilians killed by international forces in Afghanistan
Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer referred directly to the increasing questions being asked about the Afghan deployment in some Nato member countries, saying there was a need to win hearts and minds back home.
President Karzai has now become much more outspoken under increasing local pressure on this issue. There was a protest rally in Helmand province on Wednesday.
Gen Scheffer said Nato forces had changed their tactics to avoid killing civilians.
"The president [Karzai] and I also realise that civilian casualties are never entirely avoidable. But we have done a lot since we also saw many - too many - civilian casualties in adapting and changing our procedures."
Gen Scheffer appealed for understanding on this issue and said there was no moral equivalent between the civilians killed by the Taleban and those killed by Nato."
Fuck you, Nato murderer!
"Memo to General Scheffer: for an Afghani mother and father retrieving scattered body parts of their child who was just killed in a raid, there is no difference between a Taliban bomb or bullet and a NATO bomb or bullet: that child is just as dead, regardless." -- Mike Rivero, What Really Happened
What I've been saying for years!
The Taliban's northern front: Taliban insurgents are building their network in the province of Badghis, in an attempt to open a gateway to Afghanistan's north
"While the attention of the Afghan government and the media is focused on major battles in the south of the country, the Taliban are making major headway in a northern region.
Badghis, a north-western province wedged between Herat and Faryab, has been the scene of heavy fighting for the past two months, and the insurgents have occupied three of the province's seven districts. They have also established intelligence and operational networks in most district centers."
Taliban recaptures district in W Afghanistan
"The Taliban insurgents recaptured Gulistan district of western Afghan Farah province Friday, provincial governor Mohaidin Baloch said. The governor said the government forces have moved out of the district to prevent war with the militants and the ensuing civilian casualties and property damage."
But we're winning, Amurkns!
