Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Romney says US should not negotiate with Taliban

2:11 AM McGhori

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.: US Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said on Monday the United States should not negotiate with the Taliban and he criticised the Obama administration for efforts to broker secret talks with the Afghan insurgents. Romney, who has won the first two Republican contests in the race to pick a nominee to face Democratic President Barack Obama in November, strongly rejected any sort of talks with the Taliban. “The right course for America is not to negotiate with the Taliban while the Taliban are killing our soldiers,” Romney said during a debate of the five Republican presidential hopefuls ahead of Saturday’s South Carolina primary. “The right course is to recognise that they are the enemy...
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Brigadier among 12 killed in Syria

2:10 AM McGhori

DAMASCUS: Twelve people, among them a brigadier, were killed on Monday in Syria where a peace plan monitored by Arab observers has failed to douse a 10-month-old struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and his foes. Arab foreign ministers will meet on Sunday to discuss the future of the mission sent last month to check if Syria was abiding by the agreement it accepted on November 2. The Arab plan required Syria to halt the bloodshed, withdraw the military from cities, free detainees and hold a dialogue. Hundreds of people have been reported killed in Syria since the monitors deployed on December 26. Random gunfire by pro-Assad militiamen killed five people, including a woman, and wounded nine in the restive city of Homs, the...
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