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February 2, 2010

Taliban Take on U.S.'s Surge

Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times

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ISLAMABAD - At the major international conference on Afghanistan in London last Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban to take part in a loya jirga (assembly of elders) - as a start to peace talks.

The Taliban are widely reported as having responded that first they want all of the more than 110,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan to leave the country by 2011.

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