The government insists that the Afghan Taliban must first renounce connections with Al Qaeda and agree to accept the constitution.
"Where they're at today has absolutely no connection with them renouncing their nuclear program or nuclear weapons," said Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman.
Its leaders have publicly renounced terrorism, and denied any connection with international terrorist groups.In this section Everybody's doing it Here we go again Registering doubts Uneasy partners Al-Qaeda and the separatists Among the ruins Rise and fall ReprintsThe government is sceptical.
For them, it is an ascetic practice: the sadhu severs connection with his family, renounces his worldly possessions and lives a life of celibacy as prescribed from the sacred texts Paramahamsa Parivrajaka Upanishad.
He immediately severed his connection with the Bar, renounced his political ambitions and applied for a place at Cuddesdon College.
"There is still the concept of the master party that owns the country". On the other hand, Ibrahim, the sociologist, says he's optimistic about the proposed reforms and other recent measures, including the release of Gamaa al Islamiya leader Karam Zohdy, who was jailed in connection with Sadat's assassination and later renounced violence.
This week, Sara Jane Olson, another former radical, pleaded guilty in California to two felony counts in connection with a 1975 bombing attempt by the Symbionese Liberation Army, but then renounced her plea, saying she had entered it only because she felt she could not get a fair hearing given the current pro-government sentiment.
If we could bring ourselves to renounce art and music in the months when nature is at its most powerful, we might be disabused of the notion of our special connection with the almighty.
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