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Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:20 AM Apr 2013

Karzai Wants Taliban to Be Part of Post-War Afghanistan

Friday, April 5, 2013 at 4:27AM by Jeanette Torres

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera that he wants to reintegrate the Taliban into society, not eliminate the group.

The Taliban was deposed as Afghanistan's rulers following the U.S.-led October 2001 invasion to destroy al Qaeda training camps following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Since then, the Taliban seems determined to regain control, or at the very least, make a more secular, democratic government difficult to sustain.

In spite of years of violent attacks against his forces and the coalition, Karzai insists he wants to include the Taliban in the process to end the long war in a peaceful fashion, especially with the U.S. and its allies preparing to withdraw their armies next year.

Read On ABC News Radio: http://abcnewsradioonline.com/world-news#ixzz2PavtshdC

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