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HARDtalk: Amrullah Saleh, Former Head of Afghan Intelligence

10/10/2011

Amrullah Saleh, Former Head of Afghan Intelligence

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to Afghanistan's former top spy: Amrullah Saleh.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Afghanistan's former top spy: Amrullah Saleh. He doesn't want talks but tougher action against the Taliban and Pakistan.

It's ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan began. Still the Taliban is not defeated and the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and some in Washington are increasingly blaming neighbouring Pakistan for fuelling an upsurge in violence.

HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi speaks to Afghanistan's former top spy: Amrullah Saleh. He doesn't want talks but tougher action against the Taliban and Pakistan. But won't that simply move the Afghan conflict into a wider and more dangerous phase?

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