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Taliban rejects Afghan Karzai's peace talk offer
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Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents rejected President Hamid Karzai's offer of peace talks on Sunday, citing the presence of foreign troops, a Taliban spokesman said Back from a trip to the United States, Karzai said on Saturday he was ready to personally meet the Taliban's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, chief of another insurgent group for peace talks.
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But he excluded any preconditions such as the withdrawal of nearly 50,000 troops under the command of NATO and the US military, as demanded by the insurgents. Karzai said US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had both supported the idea of peace talks when he met them in the US this month. Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters from an undisclosed location that talks with Kabul were out of the question. On Saturday, a suicide bomber killed 28 Afghan troops and two civilians on Saturday in an attack on an army bus in Kabul, the Afghan president said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in the Afghan capital since the hard-line Islamist movement was ousted from power for harboring al-Qaeda leaders following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
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CHAMAN RETERS
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Benzer Haberler 
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