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Titolo: Taliban 'no threat' says Karzai

Taliban 'no threat' says Karzai  
in effetti la marionetta Karzai mica poteva dire che in questo periodo
stanno facendo piu' vittime civili gli angloamericani che i talebani <g>
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Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has said the Taliban is "not posing
any threat" to his government and vowed, alongside his American
counterpart, to continue the fight against the group.
 
Karzai arrived at Camp David for talks with George Bush on Monday, amid
concern over worsening violence in Afghanistan and 21 South Korean
hostages.
 
 
 
In a news conference with Bush, Karzai said: "They [the Taliban] are not
posing any threat to the government of Afghanistan ... the institutions of
Afghanistan or to the buildup of institutions of Afghanistan."
 
He acknowledged the group were a threat but said it was "a force that is
frustrated".
 
 
 
 
 
 
He said the Taliban, which was driven from power by the US-led invasion of
Afghanistan in 2001, were "a force that is acting in cowardice by killing
children".
 
"Cold blooded killers"
 
Bush called the Taliban "cold blooded killers" who "have no regard for
human life" and put a positive spin on Afghanistan's progress since the
2001 invasion.
 
"There is still work to be done, don't get me wrong," he said. "But
progress is being made, Mr President, and we're proud of you."
 
Dr Marvin Weinbaum, a professor at the Middle East Institute in
Washington, told Al Jazeera: "It is in both their interests to play up the
positives and I think that's really all that this meeting was intended to
do."
 
But while the two leaders blamed Afghanistan's problems on the Taliban, 
both leaders have come under fire over the rising number of civilian
deaths in Afghanistan.
 
The growing toll has inflamed public opinion in the country and increased
hostility towards foreign troops.
 
Karzai's critics say he has failed to address both the increasing civilian
deaths caused by foreign forces and a decrease in security across the
country.
 
Bush's critics, on the other hand, say the US president has neglected
Afghanistan after ordering the invasion of Iraq in 2002.
 
Weinbaum said that Karzai's support might well be strongest in America
rather than in Afghanistan.
 
"If he [Karzai] has a really strong constituency it's here in the United
States," he said.
 
Difference of opinion
 
 
Karzai's critics say he has failed to address the 
growing civilian death toll in Afghanistan [AFP] 
The two leaders differed over Iran's influence in Afghanistan. Karzai had
said in advance of his visit to Camp David that Iran is a partner in the
fight against terrorism and narcotics.
 
"So far, Iran has been a helper," he said over the weekend.
 
But Bush, whose administration has been sharply critical of Iran, said: "I
would be very cautious about whether or not the Iranian influence there in
Afghanistan is a positive force."
 
The meeting was also been overshadowed by the US failure to find Osama bin
Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, who US intelligence officials say is hiding
across Afghanistan's border in Pakistan's tribal region.
 
Bush has said before that he would order the US to act inside Pakistan if
there were firm intelligence on the whereabouts of bin Laden.
 
Pakistan's leaders, though, have objected to any unilateral action by
Washington. In their meeting Bush and Karzai also discussed the fact that
Afghanistan now accounts for 95 per cent of the world's poppy production,
which is used to make heroin.
 
Karzai finished the press conference, saying: "We know today that the
terrorists are buying and selling suicide bombers. We have received calls
in our government offices by handlers of suicide bombers that they want to
sell them to us. So it's become a trade."
 
There was no mention of the crisis involving 21 South Korean hostages
seized by the Taliban in July.
 
The kidnappers have killed two of the 23 initially taken and are demanding
the release of Taliban prisoners in exchange for the rest of the group.
 
South Korea has appealed to the US and the Afghan officials to negotiate
the release, but Bush and Karzai have both said that they will not make
concessions to the Taliban that might encourage a hostage-taking
"industry".
 
 
 
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 stanno facendo piu' vittime civili gli angloamericani che i talebani <g>
Eggia'.   Malgrado la resistenza Afhgana e' gia' stata ordini di
grandezza piu' potente ed efficace, che, per esempio, 40 anni di
(mancanza di) resistenza in posti "occupati" come l'Estonia.
GT

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leggi collaborazionisti dei nazisti nelle stragi che hanno commesso nel
Baltico.
 
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