US envoy to Afghanistan offers amnesty to Taliban
AFP, December, 2004
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KABUL (AFP) — US ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad offered an olive branch to Taliban insurgents, calling on them to lay down their arms in return for an amnesty.
Speaking at a news briefing in Kabul, he urged the Taliban to get in contact with tribal elders and the US-led coalition "and declare their allegiance and lay down their arms and in return they will not be targeted".
Khalilzad called on Taliban militants "to lay down their arms, to stop using terror tactics. Continuation of armed resistance... is against the will of Afghan people and Islam," he said.
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He added that the appeal was aimed at "non-criminal" Taliban and would not include "international terrorists" or those who have committed crimes against humanity within Afghanistan.
The hardline Islamic regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign in late 2001 but Taliban loyalists continue to stage attacks on government and ...
