Kohestani raised her hand: "The Taliban were fundamentalists".
On the other hand, the Taliban have learned from the last decade.
Also on hand were Taliban fighters and suicide bombers in case the security forces woke up and there was a fight.
"On the one hand, the Taliban are talking with the Americans, but on the other hand, they carry out a bombing in Kabul," Mr. Karzai said, referring to a bomb that exploded Saturday in front of the Defense Ministry.
Afghan officials have also argued that a program with American-financed chemical eradication squads wiping out farmers' livelihoods would hand the Taliban rebels a major propaganda tool and risk driving farming communities into the insurgency's camp.
It's one thing for Obama not to hand the Taliban our playbook in northwest Pakistan.
Corruption meant that U.S. tax dollars were soon funnelling into the hands of Taliban insurgents.
The last time these places changed hands, the Taliban came in and killed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people".
No one would be safe if ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads were in the hands of Taliban gangs.
"The fraud has handed the Taliban its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners," he wrote.
