January 29, 2010 - Groups representing Afghan women warned the international community on Wednesday against pursuing a peace deal with the Taliban, fearing a return to the austere Islamist rule that saw women banned from education and work. Women from a UN agency, the Institute for Inclusive Security and other rights' groups told reporters in London that the progress made since 2001 should not be jeopardised by courting conservative elements. Some 60 countries are to attend a conference on Afghanistan in London on Thursday which has been preceded by a groundswell of support for an eventual political settlement with the Taliban movement which ruled from Kabul from 1996 till U.S.-led forces toppled the hardline Islamists after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Tell me again....why are we negotiating ANYTHING with an Islamic terrorist group that vows to destroy the West? Click below for story.
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