Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Afghanistan Demands 'Timeline' For End Of Military Intervention

US soldiers hunt for Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants
in Afghanistan's Khost province


From AFP:

KABUL (AFP) — President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international community set a "timeline" for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said.

Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how long the US-led "war on terror" was going to be fought in Afghanistan or it would have to seek a political solution to a Taliban-led insurgency.

A US-led invasion ousted the extremist Islamic Taliban regime in 2001 and launched the "war on terror" which has brought nearly 70,000 mainly Western troops to Afghanistan, most of them under a UN Security Council mandate.

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My Comment: President Karzai is asking the wrong people .... who should ask the Taliban on how long do they want to continue their campaigns in Afghanistan.

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