Taliban urge Afghan president Hamid Karzai to reject US security deal
The Taliban have urged the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai,
to turn a delay in signing a long-term security deal with the United States
into outright rejection, in an unusually polite statement directed at a leader
the insurgents have repeatedly denounced as a US puppet. The deal would allow
US forces to stay on past the 2014 end of the current combat mission, and seal
billions of dollars a year in funding for the Afghan police and military. The
Taliban on Monday offered the Afghan leader rare, if somewhat grudging, support
for his position so far, but also demanded that he abandon all conditions and
reject the pact unilaterally.
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