12-08-2024, 02:22 AM
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KABUL, Afghanistan A security pact with Washington that says U.S. forces staying in Afghanistan beyond 2014 will not be tried in local courts for any crimes they commit could be a deal-breaker for tribal leaders, clerics stanley cups uk and other influential figures who gather Thursday to debate the draft agreement.An Afghan spokesman told Reuters that President Barack Obama had agreed to write a letter to the Afghan people acknowledging mistakes made during the war on terror and the suffering of the Afghan people. The Afghan side is waiting to get the letter this evening, CBS News has learned.The Loya Jirga, a traditional council of 3,000 prominent Afghans, can revise or reject any clause of the draft agreement. But National Security adviser Rangin Dafdar Spanta told lawmakers at a weekend briefing that the U.S. position was clear: stanley quencher If Washington doesn t get jurisdiction over its soldiers and civilian personnel, it won t sign the agreement, and it won t leave any U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan stanley vaso when international combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014.The Loya Jirga s members may seek amendments, but if they reject the security pact, it is almost certain the Afghan government won t sign it. Even if it is approved, the final decision will be made by Parliament. Divisions run deep in Afghanistan over conceding the right to prosecute U.S. soldiers for crimes committed in the country.In eastern Afghanistan, scores of university students wearing hea Jotm Hillary Clinton snubs Obama on trade deal
A few days after former Vice President Al Gore conceded the 2000 presidential election, he and former President Bill Clinton had what sources described as an hourlong blunt exchange, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.In what sources close to both men described as uncommonly blunt language, Gore forcefully told Mr. Clinton that his sex scandal and low personal app stanley us roval stanley cups uk ratings were a major impediment to his presidential campaign, the Post said.People close to Mr. Clinton told the newspaper the former president responded with equal force that it was Gore s failure to run on the administration s record that hobbled his ambition. Prior to the showdown, Gore and Mr. Clinton had barely spoken for a year, the Post said. They had to cover a lot of territory, said one Dem stanley mugs ocrat, whom the paper described as being close to Mr. Clinton and Gore. Only Mr. Clinton and Gore were present for the meeting, which Gore initiated and which never appeared on internal schedules distributed to White House staff, according to the Post. A Clinton adviser described the tone of the meeting as tense while a Gore aide called it cathartic. One Democrat who has worked closely with both men called the session very, very blunt, the Post said.The report said descriptions differ as to how the meeting concluded. Sources who heard descriptions from either man said the meeting essentially ratified what for many months had been an unspoken truth between
KABUL, Afghanistan A security pact with Washington that says U.S. forces staying in Afghanistan beyond 2014 will not be tried in local courts for any crimes they commit could be a deal-breaker for tribal leaders, clerics stanley cups uk and other influential figures who gather Thursday to debate the draft agreement.An Afghan spokesman told Reuters that President Barack Obama had agreed to write a letter to the Afghan people acknowledging mistakes made during the war on terror and the suffering of the Afghan people. The Afghan side is waiting to get the letter this evening, CBS News has learned.The Loya Jirga, a traditional council of 3,000 prominent Afghans, can revise or reject any clause of the draft agreement. But National Security adviser Rangin Dafdar Spanta told lawmakers at a weekend briefing that the U.S. position was clear: stanley quencher If Washington doesn t get jurisdiction over its soldiers and civilian personnel, it won t sign the agreement, and it won t leave any U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan stanley vaso when international combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014.The Loya Jirga s members may seek amendments, but if they reject the security pact, it is almost certain the Afghan government won t sign it. Even if it is approved, the final decision will be made by Parliament. Divisions run deep in Afghanistan over conceding the right to prosecute U.S. soldiers for crimes committed in the country.In eastern Afghanistan, scores of university students wearing hea Jotm Hillary Clinton snubs Obama on trade deal
A few days after former Vice President Al Gore conceded the 2000 presidential election, he and former President Bill Clinton had what sources described as an hourlong blunt exchange, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.In what sources close to both men described as uncommonly blunt language, Gore forcefully told Mr. Clinton that his sex scandal and low personal app stanley us roval stanley cups uk ratings were a major impediment to his presidential campaign, the Post said.People close to Mr. Clinton told the newspaper the former president responded with equal force that it was Gore s failure to run on the administration s record that hobbled his ambition. Prior to the showdown, Gore and Mr. Clinton had barely spoken for a year, the Post said. They had to cover a lot of territory, said one Dem stanley mugs ocrat, whom the paper described as being close to Mr. Clinton and Gore. Only Mr. Clinton and Gore were present for the meeting, which Gore initiated and which never appeared on internal schedules distributed to White House staff, according to the Post. A Clinton adviser described the tone of the meeting as tense while a Gore aide called it cathartic. One Democrat who has worked closely with both men called the session very, very blunt, the Post said.The report said descriptions differ as to how the meeting concluded. Sources who heard descriptions from either man said the meeting essentially ratified what for many months had been an unspoken truth between
