Tayeb Agha, center, the Taliban leader’s chief of staff in November 2001. He is one of the diplomats stranded in Qatar. Banaras Khan/Agence France-Presse
Peace Envoys From Taliban At Loose Ends In Qatar -- New York Times
DOHA, Qatar — When a handful of Taliban emissaries flew into Qatar on an American plane in 2010, the Obama administration hoped they would help negotiate a peace deal that could stabilize Afghanistan and allow the United States a graceful exit.
Three years after that secret arrival, the Taliban officials remain idle and their political office here remains unused.
“They are just living here enjoying the air-conditioning, driving luxury cars, eating and making babies,” one Afghan diplomat in Qatar said. “It’s all they can do; they have no work to do.”
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My Comment: I guess this paragraph sums up what the Afghan "peace process" has become ....
.... Three years after that secret arrival, the Taliban officials remain idle and their political office here remains unused.
“They are just living here enjoying the air-conditioning, driving luxury cars, eating and making babies,” one Afghan diplomat in Qatar said. “It’s all they can do; they have no work to do.”
Sighhh .... there is no Afghan peace process.
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