Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets with U.S. special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad in Kabul, Afghanistan September 2, 2019. Afghan Presidential Palace/Handout via REUTERS
Reuters: Afghan president briefed on draft U.S. Taliban peace accord
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has been briefed on a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban and will look at details of the deal before giving an opinion, his spokesman said on Monday, after meetings with the chief U.S. peace negotiator.
The draft accord, reached after months of negotiations, agrees a ceasefire and a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from their longest ever war in exchange for a Taliban commitment that they will not allow Afghanistan to be used by militants to plot attacks on the United States and its allies.
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More News On Reports That The U.S. And The Afghan Taliban Have Reach A Deal 'In Principle'
Draft of US-Taliban deal shared with Afghan leaders -- Military Times/AP
US envoy shows draft of deal with Taliban to Afghan president -- Al Jazeera
U.S., Afghan Taliban Reach Deal 'In Principle' -- RFE
To Start Afghan Withdrawal, U.S. Would Pull 5,400 Troops in 135 Days -- The New York Times
US-Taliban deal would see US pull troops from five bases: US envoy -- AFP
Taliban deal would see US troops 'withdraw from five bases' -- Al Jazeera
an image tweeted by President Trump on Friday came from one of America's most advanced spy satellites.
ReplyDeleteThe image almost certainly came from a satellite known as USA 224, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite-tracker based in the Netherlands. The satellite was launched by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2011. Almost everything about it remains highly classified, but Langbroek says that based on its size and orbit, most observers believe USA 224 is one of America's multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellites.
If it is so classified how does Marco Langbroek know it's size and orbit, much less it's designation and the fact that "most observers" believe this or that. All of this is in the public domain. KH-11!?!?! Seriously!
DeleteA very expensive tool just sitting up there waiting to be shot down when the right parties make war on each other back on Earth. It might be enough to ensure there is no war between the big boys, only between the surrogates.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised the US is bothering to negotiate with the Taliban. The Taliban cannot be trusted to honor any agreement.
ReplyDeleteanon: the US had an agreement with Iran. Trump broke it
ReplyDeleteSo?
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ReplyDeleteWhere have I seen this movie?
And why bother smothering reality with the frosting from a dented can that is 12 years past expiration date when it fell off the truck going to the recycling center at 60MPH on the freeway?
Come out and say it; another ill-managed war on which we are giving up. Again. Often managed by overpaid incompetents from nearly start to finish whose final actors aren't honest enough to say we are abandoning ship. Get out the frosting shovels, no spoons allowed, here we go again.
Ironic, isn't it, that having wasted part of my life in SVN I now have a born in America nephew who recently joined the army and whose father escaped from SVN at age 7 and whose grandfather was an officer who served in the SVN army.
A bitter and disgusted Mr. Smith.
Don't be bitter, you did make it back to the "world". You've seen first hand that freedom as an idea never dies."It don't mean nothing" belongs to others.
DeletePS. Afghanistan's progression is eerily similar to SVN.
"anon: the US had an agreement with Iran. Trump broke it"
ReplyDeleteAn agreement that had an option to back out.
If you take the option to exit which was part of the agreement, you are leaving it per the contract not breaking it.
IMO Iran broke it, when it continued production in the off limits military sites.
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I'll tell ya, anon, at 73 I don't think there has been a time in my life when I didn't have a quick comeback. That was until last year when a 40 something with whom I do volunteer work out here asked me what the little yellow red and green decal on my driver's side door meant. That decal, as you surely know, represents the S.V.N. flag. To a vet it means I was there.
I just sat in my car for a few seconds. Blankly. I've never experienced being in neutral. Never.
My first thought was what a waste. Second was why did we [veterans] even bother? Then I shifted back into gear and told him what it represented. He said he had seen it before but knew nothing of it's significance. I started the car up and drove home. If eyes came with wipers like my windshield I would have had to change them before I finished two miles of the 4 mile drive home.
Thank you for your commenting anon. I much appreciate it.
Roger