11 February 2009

Taliban love note

Did anybody see President Hamid Karzai playing kissy-face with the jihadis the other day?
"We will invite all those Taliban, who are not part of al-Qaida, who are not part of terrorist networks, who want to return to their country, who want to live by the constitution of Afghanistan, and who want to have peace in the country and live a normal life to participate, to come back to their country."
I guess he meant the guys who only joined up for the Friday night bowling league.

Well... it looks like they've decided to take a pass on his offer to bring them back into the fold...
-- KABUL -- A spokesman for Afghanistan's Defence Ministry says 19 people were killed and 46 wounded in multiple attacks on government building attacks in Kabul.

General Mohammad Zahir Azimi says that eight attackers also died in the attacks outside the Justice Ministry and other government buildings on Wednesday.
Karzai might forgive... looks like the Taliban have other plans.

The BBC has pix.

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