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Current affairs 18 Jan 2012, NewAgeIslam.Com West's romancing of the Taliban By Praveen Swami January 18, 2012 People of Afghanistan will pay the price for the West's looming deal with the Islamic Emirate it destroyed after 9/11.
	The West's Afghanistan policy marks a return to these geostrategic roots —this time founded on the hope that religious-authoritarian regimes will provide a volatile region stability. Its growing engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, its tactical embrace of jihadists in Libya and Syria, its use of the right-wing cleric, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, as a mediator with the Taliban form other parts of this mosaic. -- Praveen Swami http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamCurrentAffairs_1.aspx?ArticleID=6407