Today a few stories seemed to be conflicting. First you have Barack Obama: Taleban can be involved in Afghanistan future which states the following:
Mr Obama appears to have been swayed in recent days by arguments from some advisers, led by Vice-President Joe Biden, that the Taleban do not pose a direct threat to the US and that there should be greater focus on tackling al-Qaeda inside Pakistan.
However, you also have Taliban owns up Kabul blast, shifts focus from ISI which states:
In promptly claiming responsibility for the suicide attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul on Thursday, Taliban may have given the game away.
And yesterday you had Cooperation Rises between Iran and Taliban which states:
A soldier from 7th Group Special Forces finds rocket propelled grenades in a hard-core Taliban village that he knows from experience, are made in Iran.
The find confirms what U.S. commanders and troops in Afghanistan are seeing more often - a rise in the level of cooperation between Iran and the Taliban.
All this begs the question, who is right? Does the Taliban pose a threat, or not?
