US plans to pay Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Kabul
source: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/2009102873219600416.html
-
-
- Chod77
- added this
"The US military commanders in Afghanistan are to be allowed to pay Taliban fighters who switch sides and renounce violence against the government in Kabul.
The new provision is included in a defence bill Barack Obama, the US president, will sign into law on Wednesday.
The move establishes a programme in Afghanistan similar to one used in Iraq where former fighters were re-integrated into Iraqi society, Carl Levin, the senate armed services committee chairman, told the Reuters news agency.
Obama plans to sign the bill authorising Pentagon operations for fiscal 2010 on Wednesday, the White House said."
The new provision is included in a defence bill Barack Obama, the US president, will sign into law on Wednesday.
The move establishes a programme in Afghanistan similar to one used in Iraq where former fighters were re-integrated into Iraqi society, Carl Levin, the senate armed services committee chairman, told the Reuters news agency.
Obama plans to sign the bill authorising Pentagon operations for fiscal 2010 on Wednesday, the White House said."
-
-
HowdyDo
-
I am thinking this is throwing good money after bad - if the Taliban can be so easily bought, who is to say some other schmuck(s) won't come offer them MORE money to kill American soldiers & Afghan citizens? And who is to say they won't just agree to renounce violence, but then use it to kill American soldiers & Afghan citizens? Al Queda in Pakistan has broken their promise to the Pakistani government countless times.
- 2 years ago
-
HowdyDo
