Thursday, December 27, 2007
Spies from Britain's MI6 are thought to have held at least six meetings with key Taliban figures in order to negotiate a peace deal in Afghanistan's south-eastern Helmand province.
The revelations are an embarrassment to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who just a fortnight ago denied in the British Parliament any such talks were taking place...
Britain negotiated an earlier peace deal in October 2006, which failed. At that time British forces pulled out of Musa Qala after an agreement with tribal elders declared the area a neutral zone.
Taliban fighters responded quickly by seizing control of the surrounding district and occupying the town for most of 2007.
The Afghan Government, NATO allies and Australia are believed to have all privately chided Downing Street over the Musa Qala peace deal, labelling it a surrender to the Taliban.
They do it and so do we. A former aide admitted that terrorist and Nobel prizewinner Arafat founded Black September. Our partner in peace, current Palestinian Arab President Mahmoud Abbas was involved in the Munich Massacre:
Ma'an (Arabic) reports that a series of articles being authored by longtime Arafat aide Marwan Kanafani in Egypt's Al Ahram will say that it was Yasir Arafat himself who created the Black September organization in 1970.
Black September was behind many of the highest-profile terror attacks in the early 1970s, including the murder of Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tel, the Munich Olympic massacre, the May 1972 hijacking of a Belgian airliner from Vienna, dozens of letter bombs including at one that killed an Israeli politician in London, and the murder of two US diplomats in Khartoum.
The PLO always used Black September for plausible deniability, claiming that the deadliest BSO attacks had nothing to do with them...
...And we know that the current Palestinian Arab President Mahmoud Abbas was also involved in Black September, specifically in the Munich massacre.
Is anyone surprised by these revelations? I didn't think so. Everyone knows Abbas and Arafat are terrorism personified. Everyone know that when we negotiate with terrorists, they see it as surrender.
The only people who are fooled by this implausible deniability are the Western politicians who hope to gain historical brownie points and the favor of oil-rich Gulf Arabs by re-labeling the surrender as a 'peace process'
Diplomats like Rice and Brown don't want to admit that they're surrendering to terrorists, but that's exactly what they're doing.
