ISLAMABAD – Crown Prince of Abu Dhbai had proposed the a program toassassinate the leaders of Taliban in Qatar, it has been reported by AlJazeera.
Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, made the offerto Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a meeting in mid-January thisyear, Al Jazeera reported, citing a report published in Middle East Eye(MEE) news website.
According to the informed sources quoted in the report, Al Nahyan had toldPompeo that Washington risked allowing Afghanistan to fall back into thehands of the “backward, bearded bad guys” and proposed hiring mercenariesto kill Taliban leaders to weaken the group’s negotiating position.
The sources further added that Pompeo was visibly taken aback by the offer,but said nothing.
This comes as UAE had supported US efforts to broker a peace deal with theTaliban, and hosted a first round of negotiations between the two sideslate last year in Abu Dhabi.
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However, the latest report suggests that Al Nahyan is believed to have beenfrustrated that subsequent rounds of negotiations were moved to Qatar’scapital, Doha, at the insistence of the Taliban, which has maintained apolitical office there since 2013.
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