See the unedited interviews of the 42 fighters, take a look at a few... (Here are your 'international terrorists' you government twats...)
Half of them complain the government or the foreign troops have destroyed their opium fields, 80 per cent say they grow poppy... more than a quarter say family or friends have died in foreign air strikes...
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Meanwhile the bigger picture; peace negotiations. Jason Burke has some idea over at Guardian. Some details he has wrong - or wait... actually he has no details at all... But it takes a certain audacity to write a non-story like that...
They deny everything, of course. But yes, people have been talking...