Jadi, Taliban TIDAK langsung menolak uluran tangan Karzai.
Ada harapan kalau begitu, bahwa mereka mau berunding.
Ada harapan mereka maumendarijalan damai. .
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Afghan Taliban prepare response to Karzai safety vow
Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:00am EST
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents said on Monday they were
drawing up a response to an offer from 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 on 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 Taliban have ruled out any talks in the past as long as foreign troops
remain in Afghanistan, but Karzai said on Sunday that condition was
unacceptable.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, declined to comment on Karzai's
comments but said a Taliban reaction would be issued.
"We are preparing a reaction and will put it in a statement later today,"
Mujahid said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Violence in Afghanistan has surged over the past two years, raising doubts
about prospects for the country and its Western-backed government.
About 70,000 foreign troops, about 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.
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.
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.
(Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Robert Birsel and David Fox)
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