The Taliban is prepared to completely disown al-Qaeda, allow the US to retain several military bases in Afghanistan and agree a ceasefire deal to end its 11 year conflict with Nato, a major report released on Monday discloses.
The group, which was ousted by the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, is now willing to cooperate with the US on security and take part in peace negotiations in return for international political recognition, the study says.
The report was compiled by the respected Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) following interviews with four senior Taliban figures close to the organisation's leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. These included former government ministers, one of the group's founding members and a Mujahideen commander.
It sets out a detailed path to a negotiated settlement for Afghanistan that could allow the majority of western troops to withdraw in 2014 without the country descending into renewed chaos.
According to the report, the Taliban representatives believe there is "no natural enmity" with the Americans, and that they would be prepared to accept a long-term US military presence in the country if it helped Afghan security.
Under the plan, five US military bases could operate in Kandahar, Herat, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul to help rebuild Afghanistan up to 2024. The Taliban figures expressed hope that military assistance would translate into economic assistance over time.
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Bad place for a fully loaded plane to crash full of explosives hit by rpg all troops safe and all prisoners dead or even a fully loaded helicopter on it's last leg! It would be horrible!
[ABC News] Afghan authorities say two kabooms near the governor's compound in a western province have killed a 12-year-old boy and maimed 16 other civilians.
Farah provincial front man Abdur Rahman Zhuwandai says the bombs were attached to cycle of violences parked in two different squares near the governor's office.
He says nearly all of those injured in Sunday's kabooms were young people between the ages of 8 and 21.
Separately, the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... military coalition says one of its service members was killed Sunday by a roadside kaboom in southern Afghanistan. The statement did not provide further details.
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The Taliban is prepared to completely disown al-Qaeda, allow the US to retain several military bases in Afghanistan and agree a ceasefire deal to end its 11 year conflict with Nato, a major report released on Monday discloses.
[ABC News] Afghan authorities say two 
