{"id":28424,"date":"2012-01-23T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28424"},"modified":"2012-01-23T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:19:54","slug":"negotiations-with-the-insurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28424","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations with the insurgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sent us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ap-exclusive-us-talks-afghan-insurgent-group-184848900.html\">Associated Press<\/a> article about the negotiations that going on between the US and a former 6-year prisoner from an Afghanistan jail, former Taliban minister and current leader of the Islamic party, Hizb-i-Islami.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Ghairat Baheer, a representative and son-in-law of longtime Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Gul-bu-DEEN HEK-mah-tyar), told The Associated Press this week that he had met separately with David Petraeus, former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan who is now CIA director, and had face-to-face discussions earlier this month with U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, currently the top commander in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, since he&#8217;s a leader of the insurgency in Afghanistan, we had imprisoned him for all of the right reasons. And now we&#8217;re trying to make peace with him? Good luck.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part of the article to me, was this paragraph;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Washington, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden would not confirm that such meetings took place but said the U.S. was maintaining &#8220;a range of contacts in support of an Afghan-led reconciliation process.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Caitlin Hayden, you old timers might remember, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15745&#038;cpage=1#comment-159516\">the member of the US Afghanistan Embassy staff who made two appearances on this blog<\/a> over two years ago denying that there were negotiations going on between the US and the Taliban. So I guess her function is purposeful misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sent us a link to an Associated Press article about the negotiations that going on &hellip; <a title=\"Negotiations with the insurgency\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28424\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Negotiations with the insurgency<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}