Afghanistan Offers Amnesty to Wanted Taliban Rebels (includes Mullah Omar)

[TacticalPeek]

Afghanistan Offers Amnesty to Wanted Taliban Rebels


By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: May 9, 2005

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 9 - The head of Afghanistan's peace and reconciliation commission held out an amnesty today for all rebels fighting American and government forces, including the most wanted men, the Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, and a renegade commander, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, recently appointed to head the Independent Afghan National Commission for Peace in Afghanistan, is encouraging members of the Taliban and other militants to lay down their arms and return home in peace.

"This peace that we want is for all, there is no exception," Mr. Mojadeddi said. "Those who are armed, they should lay down their weapons when they come, accept the constitution and obey the government. When they come, we will accept them with an open heart."

The Afghan government had changed its policy that formerly excluded people like Mullah Omar and Mr. Hekmatyar, Mr. Mojadeddi said. As head of the commission, he noted that he had been granted independence to act as he saw fit on the matter.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/international/asia/09cnd-afghan.html?hp&ex=1115697600&en=915805b4f7a6046e&ei=5094&partner=homepage



(We give.)

:grr:

[amazona]

1. OK now I'm mad

Amnesty for the man who received millions of dollars to provide safe harbor for Osama bin Laden and his organization while they planned the 9-11 attacks?

I'm tempted to do a "bartcop" and say, "Glass 'em all."

If any man deserves trial and execution, it is the man who harbored Osama not for belief but for cold, hard cash.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[NNN0LHI]

2. Mullah Muhammad Omar's #2 man was an FBI informant since 1996 n/t

[amazona]

4. really? I didn't know that

Seems they should have rounded Omar up and put him in the brig waaaay before now.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[NNN0LHI]

5. I would imagine if they had ever wanted to round him up they could have

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-talibanspy7may07,0,3116252.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Taliban's Mouth, FBI's Ears"

NEW YORK — As the voice of the Taliban on American television, Noorullah Zadran came to his calling with impeccable credentials. With a flowing black beard, Ivy League degree and sonorous command of English, he projected the cultured face of a true believer.

Zadran smiled serenely into a PBS camera in August 1998, hours after Cruise missiles rained on Osama bin Laden's bases in Afghanistan in retaliation for the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.

"We would like to see hard evidence," he said, "to convince us they were terrorist camps." Bin Laden, he insisted, was "the guest of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, with the understanding that no act of terror would be initiated from our soil." snip

Behind his diplomatic pose, though, was a hidden pursuit. Zadran, 53, had avoided prison in a federal smuggling case by turning FBI informant. For three years, he offered intelligence on the Taliban's hierarchy and terrorist operations in Afghanistan even as he served as the regime's American representative. snip

The tangled course of Zadran's secret life provides a glimpse into the murky realm of terrorism informants, where motives and loyalties often blur. The undercover ally who pledged in a sealed 1996 plea agreement that he would "provide to the FBI any and all information related to possible terrorist activity" is now the first Taliban official to face prosecution in a U.S. court.

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[rzemanfl]

3. Remember in 2001 the TV shows about the people being

executed in the soccer stadium, the widows feeding their kids bread crumbs for dinner and all that? That fucking mullah-f***ker? Amnesty? How many years did it take for people who went to Canada to avoid Vietnam to get amnesty? Shit.

[wallwriter]

6. How 'bout amesty for Osama

[jobycom]

7. Proves my point that the invasion of Afghanistan was wrong, too

We invaded the Taliban, who were trying to hand Bin Laden over to us, because Bush declared we would "make no distinction between terrorists and the nations that harbor them." Now he's being offered amnesty by our puppet regime?

In case anyone thought the invasion of Afghanistan was justified, here's the summary: Unocal wanted to build a pipeline through Afghanistan and called for the US to overthrow the Taliban. Clinton refused. 9-11. Bush invaded Afghanistan, even though they were trying to turn UBL over to us. Bush appointed a former board member of Unocal, Hamid Karzai, head of Afghanistan. The Taliban flared back up and threatened Karzai's control of the nation, and thus Unocal's pipeline. Now Karzai's government wants to make peace with the Taliban.

Which part of that justified the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people in the most victimized nation in the world for the last thirty years?

[NNN0LHI]

8. Don't forget the Burqas. The Afghan women are still wearing them n/t