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The Taliban Open Political Office In Qatar

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In an apparent effort to "facilitate peace talks," Al Jazeera reports that the Taliban - the armed Islamic fundamentalist group - will open a political office Doha, Qatar tomorrow.

  • AFGHANISTAN'S TALIBAN TO OPEN OFFICE IN QATAR TOMORROW: JAZEERA
  • JAZEERA CITES UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES ON TALIBAN POLITICAL OFFICE

Until earlier this year, Afghan President Karzai was strongly opposed to the Taliban having a meeting venue outside Afghanistan, but the US has pushed for the Taliban to be present at the negotiating table as Washington prepares to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in the next two years. This opening comes on the heels of accusations (here and as we discussed here) that Qatar (and Saudi Arabia) is reviving al-Qaeda in Iraq and now Syria.

As Press TV's al-ISA noted:

[Saudi Arabia and Qatar] basically have convinced al-Qaeda through their dramatic influence that if you concentrate and break Syria, then Iraq will automatically fall by actually forming a Sunni radical government which is along the lines or strategically aligned with the Wahhabi-Salafi government in Saudi Arabia and also backed up by Qatar.

and as we noted previously:

...Qatar doing everything it can to promote bloodshed, death and destruction by using not Syrian rebels, but mercenaries: professional citizens who are paid handsomely to fight and kill members of the elected regime (unpopular as it may be), for what? So that the unimaginably rich emirs of Qatar can get even richer.

 

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Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:30 | 3665969 ZerOhead
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I'm surprised they haven't hired their own K Street lobbyists yet...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:49 | 3666012 ACP
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If you ever want to know how to correctly beat a woman for driving a car, drop in any time!

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:53 | 3666021 john39
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McCain's freedom fighters behead a Christian and feed him to the dogs:

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/syria-rebels-beheaded-a-christian-and-fed-him-to-the-dogs-as-fears-grow-over-islamist-atrocities/

for the slow americans out there... these people are not real muslims...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:03 | 3666053 lolmao500
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I wonder how many religious extremists death squads will pop up on American soil once the civil war 2 kicks off?? If none appear, you betcha the government is gonna import some.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:16 | 3666095 max2205
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From the onion, I hope....oh wait...l

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 21:54 | 3666659 TwoShortPlanks
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The Pendulum will swing to an equal and opposite amplitude of that which the Western World has forcibly taken it.

Look no further than the erosion of Freedom and Liberty within the United States and Europe for evidence of the commencement of the second half of this unnatural cycle of nature, and natural cycle of man.

 

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:04 | 3666056 NitneLiun
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CAIR has. What's the difference?

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:30 | 3665972 otto skorzeny
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Obowelmovement will be the ribbon-cutter for the grand opening. McCain and Linzee Graham will be honorees.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:32 | 3665978 ptoemmes
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Yeah...he's gonna use Hellfires from a P-Drone. I mean UAV.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 21:19 | 3666585 TheFourthStooge-ing
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It figures that the Taliban chose to open their office in Gutter. In terms of cesspools of corruption, TPTB in Gutter can rub weenies with the best.

Funny how everything was quickly hushed up when one of McCain's al Qaida buddies in Syria raped a reporter from Al Jazeera. Funny how Al Jazeera is controlled by the Gutter emirate, the same peeps showering money and arms on the "religious" mercenary human organ eaters, I mean the noble jihadists of the martyrs' brigade, in Syria. But hey, that's life in Gutter.

McCain will be flying to Doha, Gutter, for a photo op with his Taliban buddies. He'll be accompanied by Lindsey Graham, who will be pushing in McCain's stool.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:32 | 3665982 nmewn
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I heard Graham is getting a brand new burka for the occasion.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:33 | 3665985 otto skorzeny
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or some sodomy

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:36 | 3665988 nmewn
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Another round of goat milk for my friend here! Hell, make it a round for all these infidels!!!

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:48 | 3666007 SWRichmond
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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they try to kill you, THEN YOU WIN.

 

We don't negotiate with terorists...oh shit, wait a minute....

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:54 | 3666024 nmewn
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I can hardly wait for our own "special executions"...the show must go on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaKbsJKqxjk

...and the crowd goes wild!

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:55 | 3666030 john39
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al-CIA-duh were independent contractors for the CIA/MI6/Mossad all along...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:30 | 3665979 reload
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Well, this Taliban inclusion / recognition probably has as much to do with the Heroin trade as their role as mercinaries in Syria. Pretty soon we will be told they are good guys after all.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:31 | 3665981 otto skorzeny
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soon to be followed by an office in DC

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:45 | 3666003 ziggy59
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Taliban destroyed much of the opium trade until US entered the story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/taliban-destroy-poppy-afghan...

Things that make you go hmmmmm

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:36 | 3665989 azengrcat
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Behind the times, they need a Kickstarter project for their next "big adventure"

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:47 | 3666006 The Invisible Foot
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Money grab.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:50 | 3666013 kaa1016
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Seriously, what the fuck is going these days? Weren't the masses programmed into believing al Qaeda and the Taliban were the bad guys responsible for 9/11? So now the government is arming them to fight some new enemies? Haven't we seen this movie before. It's fucking absolutely amazing that the media and the general public isn't all over this. Even though we know the back story to all of this shit, it's still so sad...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:52 | 3666017 ziggy59
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One explanation..big ass kardashian had a baby girl...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:25 | 3666116 NotApplicable
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Don't you get it? "They" killed JFK, and GOT AWAY WITH IT!

The narrative no longer has to be logical if they can take out anyone who interferes with it.

All it has to be is plausible enough to provide room for deniability. That's ALL politics is.

If they make a few mistakes along the way? Well, they've got your money to spend trying to fix it.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 22:30 | 3666755 Tulpa
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Expecting anything the US govt does to make sense for the good of the country is asking for a headache.  BO wants out of Afghanistan so he can start wars in other places. Playing nice with the Taliban now possibly allows us to pull out while delaying the total collapse in AFG to the Hillary/Rubio administration.  

True, pulling out and letting the Taliban rumble back in is something we could have done 10 years ago and would have saved a ton of money and grunts' lives, but BO doesn't give two putts about that.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:55 | 3666016 lolmao500
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While Russia...

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2013/06/17/Russia-actively-en...

Russia ‘actively engaged’ in Syrian war, Israeli source says

An Israeli security source said that Russia is actively engaged in the Syrian conflict helping Syrian troops by providing intelligence-gathering technology, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported.

“Russia is effectively and actively engaged [in the Syria conflict] beside the army of the Syrian regime by [providing] drones that are collecting information and data and relaying them to Syrian troops,” said the source on condition of anonymity.

The news comes on the heels of Russia’s statement that it would not allow for a no-fly zone to be imposed over Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday, according to Reuters.

At 32 seconds in... KABOOOOOOM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV0lLl8NCLg

The guy behind the attack...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWymFsFD8I

Bullish? Well no.

Syrian pound tumbles to record low on talk of rebel aid

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/us-syria-crisis-currency-idUSB...

Rebels say U.S. weapons have finally reached units in northern Syria

http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/06/17/rebels-say-u-s-weapons-have-final...

Gulf source: Saudis supplying European missiles to Syria rebels

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4393588,00.html

Yesterday's attack... a car bomb did this?? REALLY??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7WQ4pieW3g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os0rzW9cReA

ISRAELI MILITARY REFUSES TO COMMENT ON REPORT AIR FORCE STRUCK DAMASCUS MILITARY LAST NIGHT

British Royal Marines are on their way to Syrian border.

http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/19306.html

President al-Assad: Europe will pay for supplying weapons to terrorists in the region

Aleppo: by video «al-Nusra », accompanied by Tunisian women fighters executes a citizen

Breaking News Network has got a video showing the elements of “al-Nusra Front", arm of al-Qaeda in Syria," while they were kidnapping the citizen Omar Mido of Sheikh Saeed neighborhood in the city of Aleppo, as they went to the neighborhood, where they field-executed  him on charges of government support, Then they tread on his head.
Our reporter in Aleppo, citing local sources that "Mujahidat" Tunisian women have participated in the kidnapping of Syrian citizens, some of them have appeared in the video.

http://3agelnetwork.com/en/article/19418.html

Tonight at 11 on PBS, Obama pre-recorded interview on NSA and Syria prepare for a LOT of BS!

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:01 | 3666045 Frastric
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Ironically the Taliban have far more in 'democracy' than the US government ever will.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:05 | 3666059 ebworthen
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At least furnishing the place will be easy:

  1. A carpet.
  2. A Koran.
  3. An AK-47.
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:24 | 3666113 Frastric
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You forgot the poppies...

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 00:34 | 3667076 13thWarrior
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Poppies were outlawed by Taliban, however Uncle Sam use it to pay bills.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 19:16 | 3666269 nmewn
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They shoudn't forget to set aside a room for bacha bazi as well.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:14 | 3666088 The Fonz...befo...
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They have to prep for the 2022 FIFA world cup...which Qatar (that has no domestic league won the hosting rights) which only tells me that the FIFA officials have the same chronic weakness that our politicians have in which they cannot say no to a brief case full of cash....

2022 world cup in Qatar...that's gonna be a fun one now with the Taliban back in the country...oh man will they have their hands full writing up morality fines and jail time for the Brazillian half naked supporters or the Dutch/German/British beer monster supporters..

Oh wait..,we won't make it to 2022...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:44 | 3666180 lolmao500
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Breaking :

U.S FIGHTER JETS FLEW INTO SYRIAN AIRSPACE THIS EVENING, JORDANIAN ARMY SAYS

6 #US air fighters reportedly violated #Syria airspace 'mistakenly' at 6pm #Damascus time & entered a distance of 5 km!"

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:48 | 3666187 Totentänzerlied
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"the US has pushed for the Taliban to be present at the negotiating table as Washington prepares to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan"

What the fuck? The same Taliban it spent billions to oust from Afghanistan, and has demonized in every possible way as the most evil, barbaric political entity on earth, and which actually IS really fucking evil?

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:49 | 3666192 lolmao500
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Yep, the government is engaging in full scale double speak. You were never at war with Eastasia... always with Eurasia...

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 18:54 | 3666201 q99x2
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Get the Queen's opium off of Wall Street.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 19:03 | 3666232 jonjon831983
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We're all gettin played here

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 19:36 | 3666321 Miss Expectations
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"When I started out I was just a peddler moving across the blind face of a distant land.  Moving, always moving.  Always gone...and in the end I'd always offer weapons.  And they'd always take them.  Of course I was gone before they realized what they'd purchased."

Leland Gaunt

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 22:15 | 3666720 Go Tribe
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There is no strategy. They are just chasing dollars. All very reactive.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 19:22 | 3666281 Paracelsus
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I don't believe the true cost is being reflected here. We blow the crap out of countries and then bring in the refugees. I am waiting for the day when a legless US veteran sees the sniper or bomb builder responsible,in a shopping mall here in 'Murica.

Bomber: Howdy.

Vet: Hows' it going? Been a while...

Bomber: Great weather we've been having...

Vet: How's the family?

Bomber: Going okay....

 

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 21:42 | 3666639 Catullus
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Smart. The US has tried for years to get Taliban leaders into "peace talks". It's a very old trick by an occupying army. You call for peace talks and then you murder everyone there (or drop a bomb via drone on the meeting site). Americans didn't invent it. But they've basically been doing the same thing since 1675. Ask the Narragansett Jndians during king Philip's war

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 22:34 | 3666767 Tulpa
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Name one time when the US has done this...

I'm all for raking the establishment over the coals, but ZH is becoming more and more blatantly anti-American as time goes on.  I think some of you need to follow your hero Snowden to that land of freedom across the Pacific.

Mon, 06/17/2013 - 23:27 | 3666929 13thWarrior
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At least Taliban wanted Gold & Silver as money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71upDpq3sbo

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