EXCLUSIVE: U.S. tries to thin Taliban with jobs, cash offers - Washington Times: "The United States and its allies are stepping up efforts to persuade Afghan insurgents to put down their arms by negotiating with representatives of Mullah Mohammed Omar and other Taliban commanders and offering cash and jobs to low-level fighters, according to Pakistani, Middle Eastern and U.S. officials and analysts.
The efforts, coupled with an increased U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, are meant to weaken the insurgency and promote a negotiated end to the region's violence.
'The strategy is to peel away so many fighters' from the insurgent chiefs that they will be left like 'floating icebergs and have no one left to command,' said Kenneth Katzman, an Afghanistan specialist at the Congressional Research Service."
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