Wah, saya terlalu optimis tadinya, karena saya mengira Taliban tidak menolak
tawaran, Karzai seperti diberitakan sebelumnya..
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Afghan Taliban reject Karzai's safety vow
Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:56am EST
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban militant leader rejected Monday an offer from
Afghan President Hamid Karzai of safe passage for insurgent leaders who wanted
to talk peace.
Karzai, back from a trip to Britain and the United States, said Sunday he would
guarantee the safety of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar if he was prepared
to negotiate.
With the Taliban insurgency intensifying seven years after the hardline
Islamists were forced from power, the possibility of talks with more moderate
Taliban leaders is increasingly being considered, both in Afghanistan and among
its allies.
The Afghan government says it is willing to talk to anyone who recognizes the
constitution.
The Taliban have ruled out any talks as long as foreign troops remain in
Afghanistan. Karzai said Sunday that condition was unacceptable.
Mullah Brother, deputy leader of the Taliban, rejected Karzai's offer of safe
passage and again said foreign troops had to leave before negotiations could
start.
"As long as foreign occupiers remain in Afghanistan, we aren't ready for talks
because they hold the power and talks won't bear fruit ... The problems in
Afghanistan are because of them," Brother said.
"We are safe in Afghanistan and we have no need for Hamid Karzai's offer of
safety," he told Reuters by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location,
adding that the Taliban jihad, or holy war, would go on.
Violence in Afghanistan has surged over the past two years, raising doubts
about prospects for the country and Western efforts to establish peace and
build a stable state.
Some 70,000 foreign troops, around half of them American, are struggling
against the Taliban, whose influence, and attacks, are spreading in the south,
east and west.
The prospect of a bloody, drawn-out stalemate has focused attention on the
possibility of talks. Negotiations with insurgents in Iraq are seen as having
contributed to an improvement in security there.
"NO TALKS WITH AL QAEDA"
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said last month the United States would be
prepared to reconcile with the Taliban if the Afghan government pursued talks
but would not consider negotiations with al Qaeda.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has also suggested he was open to talks with
more moderate Taliban leaders to explore whether the Iraq strategy would work
in Afghanistan.
Analysts say the government and its Western allies hope to draw moderate
Taliban, or perhaps opportunistic commanders, into talks to isolate hardliners
close to al Qaeda.
A tentative first step toward talks was taken in September when a group of
pro-government Afghan officials and former Taliban officials met in Saudi
Arabia for discussions on how to end the conflict.
But the Taliban derided those talks and repeated their demand that foreign
troops get out. However, Afghan government officials have said they expected
another round.
Most Afghans, fed up with the interminable violence, think there will have to
be talks at some stage.
Mullah Omar carries a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head and is generally
believed to be a stalwart ally of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Analysts say Karzai offered Mullah Omar safe passage not so much in the
expectation he would take up the offer, but to emphasize his message to other
Taliban.
Karzai also has an eye on a presidential election next year that he hopes to
win, and wants to be seen by a war-weary electorate as making every effort to
bring peace, analysts say.
(Additional reporting by Saeed Ali Achakzai; Editing by Robert Birsel and Jerry
Norton)
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