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Persuading the Taliban to change sides

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President Hamid Karzai has offered an olive branch to the Taliban calling on them to join peace talks.

It is part of the renewed drive to persuade Taliban fighters to change sides and to reintegrate, similar to a strategy pursued with Iraqi insurgents.

A former head of the SAS, Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb, spearheaded that programme in Iraq and has been asked to do it again in Afghanistan.

The BBC's Andrew North asked him whether it would be possible.

READ MORE: Karzai vows to battle corruption

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