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| Russia views Taliban as al-Qaeda collaborator |
| 2006-02-02 |
| Russia continues to view the Taliban as a collaborator with international terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. "The international community's view that the Taliban are collaborators with Al Qaeda cannot be reviewed," he told the press in London at an international conference on Afghanistan. Such a change of approach "would be a significant step backwards in the efforts of the global antiterrorist coalition," Lavrov said. "We believe a balance should be achieved in Afghanistan between political forces that contributed to opposing the Taliban," he said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 What the Russians are trying hard NOT to say is that, like BESLAN and BASEYEV, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and Osama, Zark, and Zawi, etal. are decadent imperialist Bushki and Americanski plots and puppet-agents . |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-02-02 23:54 |
| #2 Heh, CF. Lavrov's statements remind me of a Firesign Theater bit lampooning the Russkies as just reaching beatnikhood back in the hippe daze. "It's a gas to sign this jazzy document. We, too, want |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-02 15:04 |
| #1 Russia continues to view the Taliban as a collaborator with international terrorists We have tested the water and continue to view it as 'wet.' |
| Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283 2006-02-02 14:59 |