Some Taliban figures reportedly ready to negotiate peace deal

Taliban wanting peace?? Wanting the USA to stay in their country for a LONG, LONG time?? Hmmm....this really really smells of that aroma called BS. Do not believe everything you read, maybe the CIA wants us to believe that Iran too loves the USA??

Does the USA want Karzai out?? and pro USA Taliban, feels really really weird to write Taliban and PRO USA in the same sentence, but pro USA Taliban IN power for Kabul??

Negotiations with opponents of the Afghan government are basically a respite between attacks and should not be taken seriously.

Hmmmm

"The enemy of my enemy must be my friend?!?"

Not this time!

Maybe another suicide bomber disguising as a peace negotiator, like had happened before.

Get ready for Karzai to go running and demanding more US defense again.

This must be a tactical move. Karzai is no friend of the US but (unfortunatel) he is what passes for a "democratic" leader in Afghanistan. so US is stuck with him.......

Where the hell is Taliban leader Mullah Omar?

The report said that from the Taliban’s point of view, any ceasefire would need strong Islamic justification and could not hint at any form of surrender.

Here's hoping that an agreeable peace plan is possible, but how many of the antics of the Taliban have truly had Islamic justification? Just off the cuff, I'm thinking about extreme oppression of women, the throwing of acid in the faces of female school kids, public stonings and beheadings... . They're giving Islam a bad name.

They're losing too much money from interference with their drug trafficking. Their war is not about politics or religion, it's drug money pure and simple.

Some Taliban figures are ready to negotiate a comprehensive peace deal involving a long-term U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, but will not accept Hamid Karzai's government,

Looks like Karzai decided to move against drugs, somehow. Maybe he understood that being an international drug farm is not going lead anywhere.

"Looks like Karzai decided to move against drugs"

Yeah, right.

I hear it's on his list just after "stop funnelling money to myself and cronies in Switzerland".

Madverts, I think you are right. I don't believe it myself.

" Some Taliban figures are ready to negotiate a comprehensive peace deal involving a long-term U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, but will not accept Hamid Karzai’s government, the Guardian reported on Monday. "

Ridiculous. The Taliban are ready to celebrate victory when the US withdraws, that is all.

This article is nothing more more than the beginning of a campaing to prepare the public for the US defeat, dressed as "success" in public relations presentation. Most likely it was leaked by the Obama adminstration... there will more like this soon.

Baibaikin:

" but how many of the antics of the Taliban have truly had Islamic justification? "

A trick question? Try ALL of them,

Baibaikin:

" but how many of the antics of the Taliban have truly had Islamic justification? "

A trick question? Try ALL of them,

sensei258:

" They're losing too much money from interference with their drug trafficking. Their war is not about politics or religion, it's drug money pure and simple. "

That is pure Western wishful thinking.

Appeal to the Taliban's sensibilities. Engage their leaders in peace talks, have representatives from various factions within the group come to a neutral location for input, then execute half of them and plant gps trackers on the other half's vehicals as they run back to their hives.

I do not agree with Taliban in many ways but it is their country. How irritating is it not to send your people half away the world using guns, rockets, weapons and tell them how to live their lives. Excuse me, but did not USA support Taliban before? So what was it that the Taliban owned USA? Right after 9-11 USA put the responsibility to bin Laden without ever having to put their argument on the court. They had decided to put the blame on him though FBI could not find a link to Bin Laden and 9-11 and Taliban was willing to negotiate. They said they were ready to give him to a 3rd party and USA flat out refused.

@ WilliB - Here's just one of many videos to prove my point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS7cbANbUSc

Oh, BTW my son has spent two tours in Afghanistan.

http://rupeenews.com/usa/the-taliban-was-a-construct-of-the-cia-and-was-armed-by-the-cia/

Excuse me, but did not USA support Taliban before?

No they did not.

Taliban was willing to negotiate. They said they were ready to give him to a 3rd party and USA flat out refused.

Taliban refused to hand over bin laden during 1999 in connection with the African embassy bombings and the bombings of the world trade center in the early 1990's which the FBI did have hard evidence connecting him to both. In both cases the Taliban claimed either he had "gone missing" or that the US evidence was not convincing.

For the 2001 attacks the Taliban wanted Bin laden tried in one of their courts, as for as willing to negotiate, they were only willing to negotiate after the US started bombing Afghanistan. They offered to give him up to a third party in return for a cessation of hostilities. Why give up bin laden to a third party? What would be the point of giving him up to a third party? How would that get bin laden closer to a US court system?