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UK TAXPAYER TO PAY TALIBAN FIGHTERS

Taliban fighters who lay down their arms will be offered money from an international trust fund under a plan being drawn up by British government officials, it emerged today.

For months, British and U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers have been approaching Taliban commanders considered "reconcilable". However, their approaches have been uncoordinated and often sabotaged by mutual suspicion. In particular, the US and the Karzai government have been suspicious of British attempts to persuade Taliban fighters and other groups to abandon the insurgency.

British officials are now proposing that a co-ordinated international initiative, described by some as a kind of trust fund, should be set up as a key objective of the London conference on Afghanistan on 28 January. The move reflects a growing realisation in London, Washington and throughout N.A.T.O. that the conflict cannot be "won" in any military sense and that some kind of accommodation with the Taliban insurgency is inevitable.

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, told MPs yesterday he hoped the London conference would agree to what he called a "reintegration programme" to help the Kabul government offer a way out of violence for Afghans who had joined the Taliban but were not committed to its ideology and could be encouraged to return to civilian life.

"The insurgency is not a monolith, it comprises many different groups which have to a greater or lesser extent co-opted foreign fighters, local tribes, those who are involved in the drug trade and mercenary fighters paid as little as $10 a day," he said. "It relies heavily on the support or acquiescence of ordinary citizens, most of whom despise the Taliban but fear reprisal attacks were they to resist.

"But with the right political strategy and the right balance of military muscle and political outreach we can exploit those divisions."

Tackling corruption in Afghanistan will also be high on the agenda of the conference, he made clear. Miliband warned that with the Taliban installing shadow governors and courts "the Afghan authorities need to guard against not just being outgunned but also being out-governed".

A recent opinion poll showed 95% of the Afghan population had experienced corruption in the police or government. Miliband said: "We hope that the London conference will help support concrete steps by the Afghan authorities to improve transparency and accountability."

What is to stop these Taliban fighters from taking this money and then continuing to fight and kill OUR sons and daughters?

We are financially broke in this country 10’s of thousands of pensioners live in poverty, over 30,000 die each year making a choice of to ‘eat of heat’

We have 2.5m unemployed today we do not have the money to pay Taliban fighter who have been killing our troops.

Why should we build houses and provide jobs for these fighters why are we even there in the first place.

It is an absolute disgrace that we the British taxpayer who have no choice in the matter are having our money used in this way

WE should pull our troops out and leave these religious factions to fight it our between themselves it has nothing to do with us at all.

Tom Linden (ND Press and Publicity)