The Afghan
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| Originally published | 2006 |
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| Authors | Frederick Forsyth |
| Page count | 343 |
| Publishers | Bantam Press |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genres | Novel |
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| Thriller | |
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| ID | 1066513 |
About The Afghan
The Afghan is a 2006 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth.
David McBride: Australian war crimes whistleblower pleads guilty
... The information he provided underpinned a series of reports in 2017 called The Afghan Files, which gave unprecedented insight into the operations of Australia s elite special forces in Afghanistan, and contained allegations of war crimes...
Top general locked away evidence of SAS executions
... In evidence to the High Court in 2020, as part of a case brought by one of The Afghan families whose relatives were killed in a night raid, Col Robert Morris of the Royal Military Police said that the controlled access compartment created by Gen Jenkins had prevented the RMP from accessing the evidence for years...
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... The Afghan Ministry of Refugees intends to register returnees and house them in temporary camps, while the Taliban administration will try and find returnees jobs...
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Afghan peace deal: Trump says Taliban talks are 'dead'
US President Donald Trump says talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan are "dead".
"As far as I'm concerned, they are dead," he told White House reporters on Monday.
Over the weekend Mr Trump cancelled secret plans to host a Taliban delegation in the US after the militant group admitted killing a US soldier.
The Two Sides had appeared close to a deal and the Taliban said the US would "lose The Most " for cancelling talks.
The US president has made withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan a key foreign policy aim, but asked about the 14,000 US troops Still There he said: "We'd like to Get Out but we'll Get Out at The Right time. "
Mr Trump had been due to host the Taliban as well as Afghan president Ashraf Ghani at the Camp David presidential retreat before abruptly cancelling.
"They thought that they had to kill people to put themselves in a little better negotiating position", he told reporters, calling The Attack "a big mistake".
What did Mr Trump say?"We had a meeting scheduled. It was my idea and it was my idea to terminate it. I didn't even discuss it with anyone else," Mr Trump said as he departed the White House for a political rally in North Carolina .
"I cancelled Camp David on the basis that they did something that they sure as hell shouldn't have done," he said, condemning The Attack that killed 12 people, including the US soldier.
Mr Trump has been criticised for entertaining the possibility of hosting the Taliban just days before The Anniversary of the 11 September attacks.
But Mr Trump defended the idea, saying "having meetings is a good thing, not a bad thing".
The Taliban had never agreed to end their violent campaign against Afghan and foreign forces while negotiations were taking place. Sixteen US troops have been killed this year.
In 2001, US-led forces overthrew the Taliban government in Afghanistan because the militants had given Safe Haven to the al-Qaeda network to plan the attacks on the US on 11 September.
How far did The Talks get?In a statement, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said The Talks were going well until Saturday.
Pulling out of The Peace process before the signing of the Agreement - because of one Explosion - showed the US's lack of maturity and experience, he added.
The proposed meeting in the US came after nine rounds of talks between the US and Taliban representatives, held in Doha, the capital of The Gulf state of Qatar.
On Monday, The Top US negotiator said there was a peace deal "in principle".
As part of The Proposal the US would have withdrawn 5,400 troops within 20 weeks, In Return for Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan would Never Again be used as a base for terrorism.
The Taliban is now in control of more territory than at any point before the 2001 US-led invasion. They have refused to hold direct talks with The Afghan government until a timetable for US troop withdrawals is finalised.
afghanistan, taliban, us-taliban peace talks, donald trump, united states
Source of news: bbc.com
