U.S. says Afghanistan's Karzai seeks new security deal conditions

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2. As Karzai had already made it perfectly clear it would wait until next elections

I can only assume that Susan Rice both likes wasting her time and doesn't read DU.

"United States to halt all military operations on civilians' homes and return Afghan citizens held in the Guantanamo prison camp before the pact is signed" doesn't sound to be an unrealistic condition.

Ref to "civilians' homes" can be read as the Taliban. Karzai had also made clear previously that the Taliban would become completely off limits to the US who will become restricted solely to the pursuit of the suspected remaining 100 or so al-Qaeda members remaining in Afghanistan.