{"id":26586,"date":"2011-09-20T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26586"},"modified":"2011-09-20T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:40:13","slug":"what-a-peace-message-from-the-taliban-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26586","title":{"rendered":"What a peace message from the Taliban looks like."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems that the Taliban have killed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-09-20\/ex-afghan-president-head-of-peace-council-rabbani-killed-by-suicide-bomb.html\"> Burhanuddin Rabbani<\/a>, chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usip.org\/publications\/afghan-high-peace-council-fails-reflect-afghan-civil-society\">Afghanistan\u2019s High Peace Council<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rabbani, a former Afghan national leader, was killed and his deputy wounded as \u201cthey met two men who said they had come from Quetta, Pakistan, with a peace message from the Taliban,\u201d said council member Habibullah Fawzi. Kabul police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanekzai said the men hid at least one bomb in their turbans, which guards failed to search when the men entered the home. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we talking notes? If anyone thinks that the Taliban wants peace were they do not have control of everything is only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/21\/world\/asia\/Burhanuddin-Rabbani-afghan-peace-council-leader-assassinated.html?_r=1\">fooling themselves.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a former presidential candidate and Northern Alliance leader, summed up the sentiments heard from many Northern Alliance figures in the wake of the assassination: \u201cThis is a lesson for all of us that we shouldn\u2019t fool ourselves that this group, who has carried out so many crimes against the people of Afghanistan, are willing to make peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abdullah added: \u201cWe have to be realistic about what we are up against. We are up against people who don\u2019t believe in any humanity. They assassinate people on the streets of Kabul, they assassinate those trying to achieve peace.\u201d Last spring the Taliban had proclaimed that they would kill members of the High Peace Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one took it seriously and they should have and it is also time for President Karzai to wake up,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are the people who he calls his \u2018dear brothers,\u2019 they are behind what happened.\u201d He referred to President Hamid Karzai\u2019s predilection for calling the insurgents \u201cdear brothers\u201d or \u201cupset brothers.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I another video that tries to say some <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5y8bRK5-dM0\">useless feel good message<\/a> as a legit solution for Afghanistan it will be too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a interview with the late Burhanuddin Rabbani.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"370\" height=\"277\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/s\/swf\/player5.4.swf?file=http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/rabbani-last-interview-rt-961\/i2fc9f22527e5520f4061b0d6c9edb986_rt-exclusive-last-interview-with-rabbani.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/rabbani-last-interview-rt-961\/former-afghan-president-burhanuddin.n.jpg&#038;skin=http:\/\/rt.com\/s\/css\/player_skin.zip&#038;provider=http&#038;abouttext=Russia%20Today&#038;aboutlink=http:\/\/rt.com&#038;autostart=false\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/s\/swf\/player5.4.swf?file=http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/rabbani-last-interview-rt-961\/i2fc9f22527e5520f4061b0d6c9edb986_rt-exclusive-last-interview-with-rabbani.flv&#038;image=http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/news\/rabbani-last-interview-rt-961\/former-afghan-president-burhanuddin.n.jpg&#038;skin=http:\/\/rt.com\/s\/css\/player_skin.zip&#038;provider=http&#038;abouttext=Russia%20Today&#038;aboutlink=http:\/\/rt.com&#038;autostart=false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>He was quoted with saying the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/asia-pacific\/afghan-ex-president-felled-by-violence-as-he-pushed-for-peace\/article2173820\/\">below<\/a> before the suicide bomber attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cEspecially in our country, there are a number of individuals who kill Muslims in the name of Muslims. We should take a clear stand against this new phenomenon when the killing of Muslims is seen as something allowable,\u201d said Mr. Rabbani, a former jihadist and Afghan president who, for the past year, had sought in vain to negotiate with insurgents as head of Afghanistan\u2019s High Peace Council\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems that the Taliban have killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, chairman of Afghanistan\u2019s High Peace Council &hellip; <a title=\"What a peace message from the Taliban looks like.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26586\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a peace message from the Taliban looks like.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,83,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-breaking-news","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}