Afghanistan – Taliban leader rules out talks with Karzai, tells Afghans to break off relations with govt (Coast Reporter)

Taliban leader rules out talks with Karzai, tells Afghans to break off relations with govt (Coast Reporter)
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban’s reclusive leader ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans on Wednesday to break off relations with his “stooge” administration.

Taliban chief rejects talks with Karzai government (The Washington Times)
KABUL, Afghanistan | The Taliban’s reclusive leader ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans on Wednesday to break off relations with his “stooge” administration. Mullah Mohammed Omar’s message, issued ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday this weekend, comes less than a week before President Obama is expected to announce an increase of thousands of troops for …

Taliban leader says U.S. faces defeat in Afghanistan (Los Angeles Times)
Mullah Mohammed Omar scoffs at an expected U.S. troop increase and urges Afghans to reject Hamid Karzai’s government. President Obama is to announce his war strategy in a televised speech. As President Obama prepares to unveil his long-deliberated war strategy, the Taliban’s supreme commander declared Wednesday that U.S.-led forces would find only defeat, dishonor and “a bed of thorns” in …

Canadian ex-official: Afghan prison claims known (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
Canada’s former top official on Afghanistan says allegations of abuse in Afghan jails were well known in 2006 when the Canadian military was turning over detainees to Afghanistan’s intelligence service.

Taliban leader rules out talks with Karzai (Deseret News)
The Taliban’s reclusive leader ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans on Wednesday to break off…

Taliban leader rules out talks with Karzai (CNews)
KABUL, Afghanistan – A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has gone missing in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

Germany s Top General Quits as Lawmakers Debate Afghan Mission (Bloomberg)
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Germany s top general quit amid a report that the army withheld evidence of Afghan civilian deaths in an air strike, overshadowing a debate in parliament over how long to keep German troops in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Taliban leader denies negotiations with US (Adnkronos)
Afghanistan: Taliban leader denies negotiations with US (AKI) – By Syed Saleem Shahzad – Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has denied any negotiations with the United States in a message for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. The message claimed foreign troops were losing the war in Afghanistan and said the Afghan people would not agree to any talks that prolonged the presence of foreign …

FEATURE-Pushing alternative crops in Afghan opium fight (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters By Katrina Manson NAD ALI, Afghanistan, Nov 27 (Reuters) – From the helicopter, you can see the empty fields of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand River valley. Now comes the question: when the fields …

Former top official says claims of Afghan prison abuse well known in 2006 (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
OTTAWA – Canada’s former top official on Afghanistan says allegations of abuse in the country’s jails were well known in 2006 when the military was turning over detainees to Afghan authorities.

Afghanistan: A Taliban Message (New York Times)
The reclusive leader of Afghanistan s Taliban has ruled out talks with President Hamid Karzai and called on Afghans to break off relations with his stooge administration.

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