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From: Jan W1/20/2010 6:18:52 PM
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Taliban leaders 'offered asylum' under London peace plan
By Ben Farmer in Kabul
Published: 6:30PM GMT 20 Jan 2010
Taliban leaders could be offered exile abroad and have their names deleted from a UN sanctions blacklist as part of a peace plan for Afghanistan to be unveiled in London next week.
LINK: UK Telegraph

...After eight years of intensifying fighting Nato commanders have acknowledged political negotiation is the only solution to the worsening fighting.

They are now backing a "carrot and stick" strategy of more troops to reverse the Taliban's military momentum coupled with incentives for fighters to rejoin society.

International donors are preparing to pay hundreds of millions of pounds towards the scheme, with Japan and the US already allocating substantial budgets.

...The report says: "The government reaches its hand out to the Taliban and other insurgent groups to offer them a dignified and respectful way to renounce violence and peacefully reintegrate into their communities and separate themselves from their past."

The plan will be unveiled to the London conference on Jan 28 by Mr Karzai and his adviser Mohammad Masoom Stanakzai.

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Let me get this straight. We're preparing for a military surge while NATO and the 'International Community' (including US!) are subsidizing a plan to let the bad guys out the back door before we get there (and kill them).
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