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# Taliban peace talks with Afghanistan stymied by US-Pak

https://thefrontierpost.com/taliban-say-they-dont-have-missing-us-contractor/
archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20200511115658/https://thefrontierpost.com/taliban-say-they-dont-have-missing-us-contractor/

Pakistan, where Taliban leaders have found a safe haven since their overthrow in 2001 by the US-led coalition, has worked with the US to get a peace deal with the Taliban. While it still has influence with the insurgents, a deep mistrust between the militant movement and Pakistan exists.

Pakistan kept the Taliban’s chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in jail for eight years after his arrest in a joint Pakistan-CIA operation in 2010, apparently because he had opened peace talks with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai but without Pakistan or Washington’s involvement. Since his release in late 2018 to push the US-Taliban peace process forward, he has returned only once to Pakistan and has quietly been relocating his family to the Middle East.


# US Congress authorizes invading the Netherlands if ICC speaks up, no protest from Dutch politicians
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202005041079193031-the-hague-invasion-act-dutch-in-denial-of-us-threat/


# Mook at cambridgeblog.org argues that the ICC should consider US 'exclusive nation' beliefs before accusing it of war crimes
http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/04/the-afghanistan-investigation-and-the-international-legal-order/


# US revokes visa of chief prosecutor of the ICC for indicating that she would investigate US war crimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/world/europe/us-icc-prosecutor-afghanistan.html