Clinton backs reconciliation with Taliban who reject violence
Updated at: 1737 PST, Tuesday, March 31, 2009

THE HAGUE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backed Tuesday Afghanistan's plans to hold reconciliation talks with members of the Taliban or past Al-Qaeda supporters who reject violence.
"We must ... support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the extremists of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban from those who joined their ranks not out of conviction, but out of desperation," she said. "They should be offered an honorable form of .... Full Story