| Less than 24 hours after the Taliban opened an office for peace talks in the
Gulf emirate of Qatar, the Afghan government backed away on Wednesday from even
starting discussions with its adversaries and broke off talks on future military
cooperation with the United States. |
| In one statement, signaling his anger
at how the Americans had negotiated the opening of the Taliban office, President
Hamid Karzai suspended talks on a bilateral security agreement with the United
States which would allow American troops to stay after 2014. |
| It was at
best a rocky prelude to peace talks with the Taliban, which have collapsed
repeatedly in the past. American officials have long pushed for such
negotiations, believing that they are crucial to stabilizing Afghanistan after
the withdrawal of Western forces next year. |
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