There are several options in the White House to deal with this offer. 1) Accept it. 2) Reject it. 3) Continue doing what we are doing but don't reject it overtly.
I believe the Obama people will try a version of #1 and #3.
Through Pakistani operatives / officials, we will signal ( quietly - between Obama and few others) a desire to be peaceful. Obama is willing and would capitulate if he received a truce. A truce would allow him to concentrate on other issues and place terrorism on the back burner.
The United States - accepting a truce from a group of killers, thugs, terrorists, and murderers. And Obama is the one who will negotiate it. What a day for us.
Qaeda tells Obama conditional truce offer stands
Mon Aug 3, 9:05 am ET
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said an offer the militant group made to the previous U.S. administration of a conditional truce is still on the table for President Barack Obama.
"If Obama wants to (reach) an understanding then he should respond to Sheikh Osama (bin Laden's) two offers," Zawahri said in an interview with al Qaeda's media arm As-sahab, posted on an Islamist website on Monday.
"Obama is trying to sell illusions to the ... weak," Zawahri said of Obama's campaign to ease tension with Muslims increased by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "He is trying to say do not hate us .... but we will continue to kill you..."
Bin Laden said in 2006 "we do not mind offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stand by ... a truce which offers security and stability and the rebuilding of Iraq and Afghanistan which war has destroyed."
The United States dismissed the offer, saying it "does not negotiate with terrorists."
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