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Afghanistan
Afghan president makes rare reference to Taleban
2014-11-01
[ARABNEWS] Afghanistan's new president invited the Taliban to join in a grinding of the peace processor backed by the international community on Friday, in an unusual direct reference to the gunnies who have stepped up attacks aimed at bringing down his month-old government.

Speaking at a conference on Afghan peace and reconstruction in Beijing, Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
Ahmadzai made no specific proposals and indicated government forces wouldn't back away from the fight. However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
his mention of the Taliban by name marked a departure from his usual public references to them as "political opponents."

"Peace is our highest priority. We invite the political opposition, particularly the Taliban, to join and enter Afghan dialogue, and ask all of our international partners to support an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned grinding of the peace processor," Ghani Ahmadzai said.

"We must not and will not permit groups pursuing grand illusions to use our country as the battleground or launching-pad against the international system," he added. It wasn't immediately clear if there was any particular significance in Ghani Ahmadzai's reference to the Taliban by name, beyond the fact he was speaking to an international audience on his first state visit abroad.

Ghani Ahmadzai's attitude toward the Taliban has been a departure from that of his predecessor, Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
, who habitually referred to the gunnies as his "brothers" and castigated the United States for its military presence in Afghanistan.

In response, the Taliban have intensified suicide kabooms, roadside kaboomings and rocket attacks in Kabul to give the impression that Ghani Ahmadzai's government can't protect the capital.
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