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April 19, 2011

Obama's Plan to Engage the Taliban

Ahmed Rashid, Financial Times

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The first target date is a presidential speech in July to mark the first withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Mr Obama may then sketch out the new strategy including a first public admission that the US is talking to the Taliban.

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TAGGED: Hamid Karzai, Pakistan, Taliban, Afghanistan

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