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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made news Wednesday when he said the combat role for U.S. troops in Afghanistan could end next year instead of 2014. On Thursday, he took a step back -- insisting U.S. forces will remain combat ready -- even as they transition into their new role of training Afghan troops.
Another part of the U.S. strategy involves getting the Taliban to hold peace talks with the Afghan government. CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward spoke with some top Taliban representatives where they live in Pakistan.
They call Sami ul Haq the "Father of the Taliban," one of Pakistan's most well-known and hard-line Islamists.
Ward visited ul Haq at his religious school near the Afghan border. Many Afghan Taliban leaders and fighters studied there, earning it the nickname the "University of Jihad."
Ul Haq said that top Taliban figures are receptive to the idea of peace talks, but that three key conditions must be met first: The Americans must leave Afghanistan, he told Ward. Secondly, Taliban leaders should be released from Guantanamo. The third demand is there should be no outside interference in Afghanistan.
It's unlikely that American negotiators will accept these terms, though a release of some prisoners from Guantanamo Bay has been discussed.
Video: Report: Taliban encouraged by Pakistan to fight
U.S. report: Taliban's strength, resolve intact
While some elements of the Taliban's leadership may be supportive of peace talks, there are clear signs that divisions exist within the group. Many of the younger, more militant foot soldiers insisting that they are not ready to stop fighting.
At a small guesthouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, CBS News had the rare chance to sit down with a young Taliban commander from Helmand province. For security reasons, he asked that his face be not shown.
"If these talks in Doha are successful and Taliban leaders tell you and your fighters to put down your arms, will you do it?" asked Ward.
"No, it will not happen," he said. "And those who are talking to the political wing of the Taliban should understand that real peace is only possible by talking to the ground fighters."
"So the bottom line is you're not willing to compromise, you're not willing to collaborate? Is there any chance of peace?"
"If the Afghan government announced tomorrow that strict Islamic law would be reinstated, we would accept that," he said, "but those in power now will never go along with that."
For the moment, there is a huge gulf between what the Taliban and their backers want and what America would be willing to accept.
Peter Dow comments:
So the Deans of Jihad have dictated terms to the West, the terms they propose of the West's surrender to the Jihadis in the war on terror.
So what should the response of the West be? Should we surrender to the Jihadis, or should we fight to win?
This guy Sami ul Haq should be a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp along with his University of Jihad colleagues, his controllers from the Pakistani ISI and his financial backers from Saudi Arabia.
The US and Western allies ought to name Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as "state sponsors of terrorism".
There ought to be drone strikes on the University of Jihad. (Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, Pakistan)
We ought to seize control of Pakistani and Saudi TV satellites and use them to broadcast propaganda calling for the arrest of all involved in waging terrorist war against the West.
It just seems very poor tactics for our military to be risking life and limb in the minefields of Afghanistan yet at the strategic level our governments and businesses are still "trading with the enemy".
As the Star Trek character Commander Scott might have said -
"It's war, Captain but not as we know it."
References -
CBS News:
Divisions within Taliban make peace elusive
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162...
Wikipedia:
Darul Uloom Haqqania AKA "The University of Jihad"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darul_Ul...
Akora Khattak, Pakistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akora_Kh...
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CBS News video (Comment by Peter Dow follows this news report)
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made news Wednesday when he said the combat role for U.S. troops in Afghanistan could end next year instead of 2014. On Thursday, he took a step back -- insisting U.S. forces will remain combat ready -- even as they transition into their new role of training Afghan troops.
Another part of the U.S. strategy involves getting the Taliban to hold peace talks with the Afghan government. CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward spoke with some top Taliban representatives where they live in Pakistan.
They call Sami ul Haq the "Father of the Taliban," one of Pakistan's most well-known and hard-line Islamists.
Ward visited ul Haq at his religious school near the Afghan border. Many Afghan Taliban leaders and fighters studied there, earning it the nickname the "University of Jihad."
Ul Haq said that top Taliban figures are receptive to the idea of peace talks, but that three key conditions must be met first: The Americans must leave Afghanistan, he told Ward. Secondly, Taliban leaders should be released from Guantanamo. The third demand is there should be no outside interference in Afghanistan.
It's unlikely that American negotiators will accept these terms, though a release of some prisoners from Guantanamo Bay has been discussed.
Video: Report: Taliban encouraged by Pakistan to fight
U.S. report: Taliban's strength, resolve intact
While some elements of the Taliban's leadership may be supportive of peace talks, there are clear signs that divisions exist within the group. Many of the younger, more militant foot soldiers insisting that they are not ready to stop fighting.
At a small guesthouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, CBS News had the rare chance to sit down with a young Taliban commander from Helmand province. For security reasons, he asked that his face be not shown.
"If these talks in Doha are successful and Taliban leaders tell you and your fighters to put down your arms, will you do it?" asked Ward.
"No, it will not happen," he said. "And those who are talking to the political wing of the Taliban should understand that real peace is only possible by talking to the ground fighters."
"So the bottom line is you're not willing to compromise, you're not willing to collaborate? Is there any chance of peace?"
"If the Afghan government announced tomorrow that strict Islamic law would be reinstated, we would accept that," he said, "but those in power now will never go along with that."
For the moment, there is a huge gulf between what the Taliban and their backers want and what America would be willing to accept.
Peter Dow comments:
So the Deans of Jihad have dictated terms to the West, the terms they propose of the West's surrender to the Jihadis in the war on terror.
So what should the response of the West be? Should we surrender to the Jihadis, or should we fight to win?
This guy Sami ul Haq should be a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp along with his University of Jihad colleagues, his controllers from the Pakistani ISI and his financial backers from Saudi Arabia.
The US and Western allies ought to name Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as "state sponsors of terrorism".
There ought to be drone strikes on the University of Jihad. (Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, Pakistan)
We ought to seize control of Pakistani and Saudi TV satellites and use them to broadcast propaganda calling for the arrest of all involved in waging terrorist war against the West.
It just seems very poor tactics for our military to be risking life and limb in the minefields of Afghanistan yet at the strategic level our governments and businesses are still "trading with the enemy".
As the Star Trek character Commander Scott might have said -
"It's war, Captain but not as we know it."
References -
CBS News:
Divisions within Taliban make peace elusive
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162...
Wikipedia:
Darul Uloom Haqqania AKA "The University of Jihad"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darul_Ul...
Akora Khattak, Pakistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akora_Kh...
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John Bolton states that the war against Saddam Hussein's regime was legal and warns
"To the extent you've got a lot of lawyers in the United Kingdom who can't find a way for Britain lawfully to use force to defend itself against the kind of threat that a regime like Saddam's posed indicates that you're on a road toward national suicide."
Bolton was debating the issue of the legality of the Iraq war with the United Kingdom Member of Parliament Menzies (Ming) Campbell.
BBC presenter Gavin Esler.
BBC Newsnight. 29th January 2010
John R. Bolton from 2001 worked as the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security then was nominated by President George W. Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005.
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Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider, associated with controversial causes like Saddam Hussein and Nazi employment policy, has been killed in a road accident, police say.
The 58-year-old was leader of the Alliance for Austria's Future, and was known for his anti-immigration and anti-EU policies.
Jörg Haider was a divisive figure, who gained notoriety after he became leader of the Freedom Party in 1986.
In 1991, his term as governor of the province of Carinthia was interrupted, after he made comments praising employment policies of Nazi Germany.
In 2000, the EU imposed sanctions against Austria in a protest over his party's role in government.
His critics saw him as an ambitious, racist opportunist who used anti-immigrant and pro-Nazi rhetoric to stir up populist sentiment.
Haider gained notoriety for his pro-Nazi comments. He described World War II concentration camps as "punishment camps" and said the Nazi SS was "a part of the German army which should be honoured".
He also compared the deportation of Jews by the Nazis to the expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia after the war.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/euro...
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Video subtitles -
It's GOOD news Comrades!
We are celebrating now!
The Fuhrer is dead. HA! HA!
Who do these neo-Nazis like?
Who WON'T they fight?
Joerg Haider & Saddam Hussein - 2 neo-Nazis
So WHO fights the Nazis?
There's our leader Comrades!
& there's our freedom fighters!
So Comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face. .....
The Internationale,
Unites the human race.
So that's just the funeral arrangements needing taken care of. So, let me see, what IS the protocol for a Nazi leader's funeral arrangements? Ah yes, as per Hitler in 1945, a can of petrol should do it.
I think I can hear the Sound of Music. The hills ARE alive!
Didn't Arnie warn these Nazis? "I'll be back" I think he said. Well Comrades, I think we ARE back and I can smell Edelweiss.
"The Sound Of Music - Edelweiss"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7wGOU...
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