{"id":29740,"date":"2012-04-30T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29740"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:50:23","slug":"al-qaeda-taliban-in-close-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29740","title":{"rendered":"al Qaeda & Taliban in “close contact”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now I’ve heard Joe “Bite Me” Biden<\/a> and some members of this forum preach that the Taliban is not the enemy, and that al Qaeda’s numbers have been reduced to joke-worthy numbers thanks to the Bite Me zombie ninja robots strategy. However, the NY Daily News<\/a> reports that documents discovered at the bin Laden lair show that there has always been close coordination between the two and that they’ve cooperated in planning attacks on the forces arrayed against the in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

The communications show a three-way conversation between Bin Laden, his then deputy Ayman Zawahiri and Omar, who is believed to have been in Pakistan since fleeing Afghanistan after the collapse of his regime in 2001.<\/p>\n

They indicate a “very considerable degree of ideological convergence”, a Washington-based source familiar with the documents told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

The news will undermine hopes of a negotiated peace in Afghanistan, where the key debate among analysts and policymakers is whether the Taliban \u2013 seen by many as following an Afghan nationalist agenda \u2013 might once again offer a safe haven to al-Qaida or like-minded militants, or whether they can be persuaded to renounce terrorism.<\/p>\n

One possibility, experts say, is that although Omar built a strong relationship with Bin Laden and Zawahiri, other senior Taliban commanders see close alliance or co-operation with al-Qaida as deeply problematic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, hey, the war against terror is over<\/a>, right? The Taliban are rational actors and worthy of bringing to the negotiating table and given a place in the Karzai government because it wasn’t the Taliban who brought down the World Trade Center towers. Of course, we haven’t heard about these communications between al Qaeda and the Taliban from the Obama Administration, who must’ve seen these same documents sometime in the last year since they were taken from the bin Laden compound, because they have a vested interest in ending the war as soon as they can end it instead of giving the troops what they need to end it victoriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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