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peace negotiators in Doha, capital of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, AP reported.
Gen. Milley met for about two hours with the Taliban negotiators on Tuesday and flew Wednesday to Kabul to discuss the grinding of the peace processor with President Ghani, the report said.
"The most important part of the discussions that I had with both the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan was the need for an immediate reduction in violence," Milley told three news hounds, including one from the AP, who accompanied him to Qatar and Afghanistan. "Everything else hinges on that."
Under ground rules set by Milley for security reasons, the journalists traveling with him agreed not to report on either set of talks until he had departed the region, according to the report.
It was Milley’s second unannounced meeting with the Taliban’s negotiating team; the first, in June, also in Doha, had not been reported until now, said the AP.
The AP also reported that Gen. Scott Miller, the top commander of US and coalition forces in Afghanistan, said in an interview at his military headquarters in Kabul on Wednesday that the Taliban have stepped up attacks on Afghan forces, particularly in the southern provinces of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Kandahar, and against roadways and other infrastructure.
"My assessment is, it puts the grinding of the peace processor at risk — the higher the violence, the higher the risk," Miller said. Miller meets at least once a month with Taliban negotiators as part of Washington’s effort to advance a grinding of the peace processor.
In Kabul, President Ghani met with Gen. Milley on Wednesday evening, the Presidential Palace said, adding: "Both sides expressed their concerns over the escalation of violence in Afghanistan and discussed the Afghan grinding of the peace processor and the immediate need for a ceasefire."
Gen. Milley also met Chief of Army Staff Gen. Mohammad Yasin Zia and other Afghan officials.