The Taliban Is Tired Of War And Ready To Negotiate

How strange after all this time.

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

Guantánamo inmate becomes ninth detainee to die at prison camp

In the weird world of "This could be you", I find myself being very uncomfortable with the facts of "no name or nationality" for what the government deems "none of my business" and passes it off as an acceptable death, that they did everything in their power to prevent.
Why are the detainees still there? The government has declared recently that
al-Qaida is now on the payroll, so then why are we wasting money to keep Guantanamo open?

A former hunger strike prisoner at Guantánamo Bay has died, the US military said Monday, after the man was apparently found unconscious in his cell at the isolated, high-security prison.

The prisoner, whose name and nationality were not released, was found by guards on Saturday and taken to a base hospital, where he was declared dead "after extensive lifesaving measures had been performed," the US military's southern command said in a brief statement.

He was the ninth prisoner to die at the facility since it was opened in January 2002 to hold men suspected of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban. The military has said two of those deaths were by natural causes and six were declared suicides.

The death occurred in Camp 5, a section of the prison used mostly to hold prisoners who have broken detention center rules, said navy captain Robert Durand, a spokesman for the prison.

This prisoner had recently splashed a guard with what military officials call a "cocktail," typically a mixture of food and bodily fluids, which is why he was on disciplinary status, Durand said.

He had been on a hunger strike in the past but had resumed eating on

Suicide bombers attack UN building in Afghanistan

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So if it's not the normal territory for the Taliban or Islamic extremists, then it can only be a message from the Afghan people to get the hell out of their country, the UN's presence is not wanted.

HERAT: Two suicide bombers attacked a UN compound in the western Afgahistan province of Herat and several insurgents were now inside the building, local police said on Saturday. Afghan troops were surrounding the U.N. building in Herat city, an area that Taliban and other Islamist militants are not very active in.

There were no immediate details on any casualties. Mohammad Salem Ehsas, police chief of Herat, said two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the building while several other attackers managed to get inside. He did not know how many fighters there were but said it could be up to three insurgents. A U.N. spokesman in Kabul, Dan McNorton , said he "was aware of an incident affecting a UN office in Herat" and said it was ongoing

U.S. withdraws ‘pain ray’ from Afghan war zone

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297361/US-withdraws-pain-ray-Afghan-war-zone.html

Perhaps it left those that it was used upon a little well done.

A ‘pain ray’ that blasts the enemy with unbearable heat waves hasbeen pulled out of Afghanistan by the US military.
The Active Denial System (ADS), which cost about £42 million to develop, was on the brink of being deployed to disperse members of the Taliban as they attacked US forces.
The weapon, which causes immense pain to subjects but no lasting physical damage, was pulled from the war zone last week but US army chiefs in Afghanistan have stayed silent about the reason for the U-turn.


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