Afghan Rebels Reject US Proposal

Friday, 17 July 2009 12:32 Prensa Latina
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Afghanistan, July 16 (Prensa Latina) The Afghan rebels refused Thursday to lay down their arms, as proposed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and demanded immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the foreign occupying troops in that Central Asian Islamic Nation.
Clinton suggested Wednesday in Washington that US would welcome the rebels if they lay down their weapons, distance themselves from the Al-Qaeda Islamic network and approve the Afghan Constitution.
In declarations to the Afghan Information Press news agency (AIP) the spokesman of Qur'an students (Taliban) Mohamad Yususf Ahmadi affirmed they do not accept any puppet government or Constitution, they will not lay down their arms and will continue with the Jihad as long as foreign forces remain in Afghanistan.
Ahmadi denied that there are antigovernment moderate and radicals as maintained by the President Barack Obama administration, which he assured strives to attract part of the rebels to a national reconciliation process.
The rebel leadership is always opposed in public to any talks and in 2008 the supreme leader Mohamad Omar considered press information propaganda by which the Taliban established some contacts with the government of Hamid Karzai.

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