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A Pakistani official told the New York Times he believed the commander was the real target. The Taliban and the US have held talks in Qatar several times this year to formulate a deal , ahead of an informal September deadline, and the broad outlines of an agreement are now thought to be fixed.
The framework would allow for a phased withdrawal of US troops, with the Taliban committed in return to severing ties with al-Qaida, and to preventing them and other extremist groups from operating in, or from, areas they control. The Taliban would be able to claim it had achieved its central aim of driving out foreign troops.
However, the draft plan leaves vital areas to be hammered out: most pressingly, how Afghanistan will be ruled once the US has left, and when both sides might lay down arms. For years, the Taliban has refused to meet with Afghan officials, denouncing them as US puppets. Although any peace deal is expected to include provisions for talks between militants and the government, it is not clear whether the US will make a full withdrawal contingent on a comprehensive agreement between its allies and the Taliban, or on a national ceasefire.
Memories of the brutal civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal in are still fresh for many. American officials, however, are concerned that Lindh may still pose a risk for terrorism. Lindh was an unlikely face of the early days of President George W. Bush's "war on terror" following the Sept.
Lindh, who was raised in Maryland and California, converted to Islam when he was a teenager. He said he had been fighting with the Taliban for months before he was captured in Afghanistan. Lindh's release has triggered backlash.
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John Walker Lindh, known as the "American Taliban" after his capture in Afghanistan in , was released from prison on Thursday after serving 17 years of a year sentence, the Bureau of Prisons said. Now 38, Lindh was being held at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind. This combination shows a police photo (left) made available February 6, , of the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh and at right a February 11,
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