Afghanistan

[ThomasWach]

Hier wieder etwas von der politischen Front. Es scheint, als seien die Gespräche in Mekka zwischen Vetretern der afghanischen Regierung und "moderateren, verhandlungsbereiten bzw. genauer gesprächsbereiten" Vertretern der Taliban keine Eintagsfliege gewesen.
Interessanterweise passt dies auch zu Obamas Kurs für Afghanistan, soweit zumindest Aussagen von ihm dazu vorliegen...

Afghanistan Tests Waters for Overture to Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government and its allies in the region have begun approaching the Taliban and other insurgent groups with new intensity to test the possibilities for eventual peace talks, Western diplomats and Afghan officials here say.

The diplomatic approaches have been stepped up over the last several months by the Afghan government, as well as by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the officials said. They are part of a broad political effort to stem the downward spiral of violence in Afghanistan and the steep decline of public support for the government during a year that has proved to be the bloodiest of the past seven.
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Important parts of the strategy would be to exploit what diplomats here say are fissures in the Taliban, to separate what amounts to day-wage fighters from the movement’s hard-core elements, whom many officials consider to be “irreconcilable,” and to divide the Taliban from Al Qaeda.
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Quelle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/...liban.html