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...President Karzai seems to be moving in the same direction. Last week he appealed to Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace and offered to talk. And in September, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, representatives of Karzai's government sat with former Taliban leaders and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Mecca to discuss Afghanistan's problems over a sunset feast of more than 100 dishes. Both Karzai's government and Afghanistan's current Taliban leadership deny that any negotiations took place. But one of the attendees, Abdul Salam Zaeef, the former representative of the Taliban's Islamic Emirate...
...Even if Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Karzai were able to overcome their glaring differences to hammer out a power-sharing agreement, the real question would be: How much power could Mullah Omar actually wield...
...country's recent turbulence. He was present at the battle of Qala-i-Jangi, as a translator for the coalition forces, and today he deciphers the untouched graffiti scratched in Persian and Urdu into black scorched walls of the fortress: "Long Live the Taliban," or "In Memory of Mullah Mohammad Jan Akhond," a Pakistani fighter with the Taliban who died in the conflict...
...docile sheep? After eight years of hardships and sacrifices - from this dismal economy, horrendous gas prices, and double wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - why would we want more of the same misery from "McPalin"? Palin is so extreme in her views that she may as well be a mullah in a dress. Her utter lack of political nous and international knowledge is shameful. This country will be the world's laughing stock if this sort of Republican ticket makes it to the Oval Office. McCain picking Palin is a big insult to the electorate and to intelligent women everywhere...
Qalibaf's true colors aren't clear. Relatively young, at 46, for Iranian politics, he is neither a turbaned mullah nor a bearded revolutionary but a manager who seems more interested in paving potholed streets than in parroting empty slogans. The son of a grocer in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Qalibaf was a teenage activist during the 1979 Islamic revolution. A few years later he became one of Iran's youngest military commanders, playing a crucial role in the 1982 liberation of the city of Khorramshahr from Saddam Hussein's invading army, and he subsequently served as Iran...