America, you should be ASHAMED of yourself!!!!!
"Taliban official reports meeting with Afghans" by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press | October 7, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - A former Taliban ambassador said yesterday that the hard-line militants sat with Afghan officials and Saudi King Abdullah over an important religious meal in Saudi Arabia late last month as the insurgency raged back home.
Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, denied that the get-together could be construed as peace talks. But President Hamid Karzai has long called for negotiations with the Taliban, and the meeting could spur future initiatives.
Kai Eide, the UN special representative in Afghanistan, said yesterday at a news conference that with US and NATO forces suffering their deadliest year so far in Afghanistan:
"[The war] has to be won through political means. And that means political engagement. Then comes a question - with whom do you engage? My general answer is that if you want to have relevant results you must speak to those who are relevant. But these are processes that are very difficult to initiate. Nevertheless, in my view a policy of engagement is the right policy."
Taliban representatives, Afghan government officials and a representative for powerful warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar were also at the meal, Zaeef said. He said all parties talked socially with one another over the dinner but that they did not discuss any issue involving Afghanistan. It was not clear how many guests attended the dinner or where in Saudi Arabia it was held.
Here is Hekmatyar in his own words.
Zaeef, who spent almost four years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said none of the representatives from the Taliban or Hekmatyar's group was authorized to carry out peace talks. "This is not new; it's a kind of a guest celebration," Zaeef said, playing down the event's importance and implying that Abdullah hosts visitors all the time. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi also said yesterday that there had been no peace talks.
Saudi Arabia is a leader of the Sunni Muslim world and the home of Islam's two holiest shrines, in Mecca and Medina. It was one of a handful of countries that recognized the Taliban as rulers of Afghanistan in the 1990s. Even after the Taliban's ouster, Saudi Arabia kept doors open for Taliban members to make the annual hajj, or Muslim pilgrimage.
I love how the AmeriKan jewpress leaves out CLINTON'S AID to the TALIBAN!!!
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
Yup, telling you the lie, the whole lie, and nothing but the lie!
That's AmeriKa's JEWSMEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While Al-Qaeda leader bin Laden, a Saudi, has frequently railed against the US-allied kingdom, his sympathizers among the Afghan Taliban have been muted in their criticism. --more--"
Also see: Afghans Wax Nostalgic For Taliban
So why does America have a hair up its ass on Iran?
Oh, right, ISAREL and the fact that the Saudis have OIL and are close to BUSH!!! Of course, the USraeli-Saudi AXIS is the TRUE AXIS of EVIL in the Middle East!!!
Also see: The AmeriKan MSM's Syrian Cover Story
