Taliban Expand List Of Demands, Refuse To Denounce 'International Terrorism' -- Long War Journal
The Voice of Jihad, the Taliban's propaganda website, today published a Question and Answer session with CNN. Several items are noteworthy. First, the Taliban's spokesman, Zahibullah Mujahid, refuses to denounce "international terrorism," much less acknowledge any willingness to sever links with al Qaeda. Second, he insists that the US adhere to the "confidence building measures" of both releasing "Guantanamo prisoners," ostensibly to include al Qaeda-linked Taliban detainees, and also removing any or all such leaders from the UN sanctions list and the US bounty list. And third, both the interviewer and the interviewee appear to have avoided the issue of al Qaeda altogether.
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