Afghan ex-spy boss calls peace strategy dangerous

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s former intelligence chief is warning that President Hamid Karzai’s strategy of seeking reconciliation with the Taliban is dangerous for the country.

Amrullah Saleh told The Associated Press today that despite the president’s conciliatory approach, insurgents were showing no sign of compromise and only responding with “violence, destruction and intimidation.”

Saleh was intelligence chief for six years. He and the interior minister resigned Sunday over a Taliban attack at last week’s peace conference in Kabul.

Saleh says they had arrested the facilitators and provided the president detailed evidence, which Karzai “pushed aside and did not pay attention to.”