Separating Moderate Taliban from Hardliners Possible
653 views · Published 30 March 2009 · 3:52 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
One element of President Obama's new Afghan strategy is aimed at reaching out to moderate Taliban insurgents to peel them away from a hard-line Islamist core linked to al Qaida. Vice President Joe Biden said this month that he believed only five percent of the Taliban were "incorrigible", who have to be fought militarily while the rest can be separated. VOA's Ravi Khanna spoke to Afghan experts in Washington about the new strategy.
