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S E C R E T KABUL SIPDIS E.O. DECL: 01/18/ TAGS: KNNP, MNUC, PREL, PARM, EFIN SUBJECT: NONPROLIFERATION SANCTIONS: A.Q. KHAN AND ASSOCIATES REF: SECSTATE Classified By: Classified by DCM Christopher Dell for reasons (b) ( d) 1. (C) SUMMARY: On January 18, polmiloffs delivered reftel demarche on sanctions against the A.Q. Khan proliferation network to Dr. Davood Moradian, Senior Policy Advisor to the Afghan Foreign Minister. Moradian generally welcomed the news but used the meeting to urge the U.S. to adopt a ''smart sanctions'' approach targeting Pakistani ISI personnel linked with terrorist networks. A biographic note on Moradian begins at para 6 below. END SUMMARY 2. (C) Moradian welcomed the news that the U.S. had imposed sanctions on activities related to the A.Q. Khan network, but he expressed disappointment that sanctions were limited to individuals and companies. He said, ''I,m very sorry to see that the A.Q. Khan sanctions were not also against the Pakistani government.'' This limit to U.S. policy ultimately protects the Pakistani government from accountability, he asserted. 3. (C) Moradian proceeded to urge adoption of a ''smart sanctions'' policy by the United States. The U.S. could, for example, extend its policy of
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Despite the US and NATO military withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, Washington and allies continue to struggle with their Afghanistan policy choices, unable to decide between options ranging from full normalization, containment, disengagement, confrontation, and others.
This is thanks in no small part to the fact that the group remains shrouded in mystery in terms of their ideological, political, and organizational dynamics. As a result, ask ten individuals about the Taliban, and you will receive ten different answers—or as one might phrase it, the “Taliban in the eye of the beholder.
The contrasting views of two prominent US and British military generals illustrate the group’s many faces around the world. Just days after the collapse of Afghanistan’s Republic last August, Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter described the Taliban as “country boys” with a “code of honor.” A year later, he characterized Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s deputy leader, as a “modernist” and called for the international community to embrace him and his “modernizers” faction. Former US National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster, however, takes an entirely different view of the Taliban, describing them as “a transnational ter