The Afghanistan government under President Hamid Karzai is within one month of "working on a plan" with the United States for the re-integration of lower-level Taliban back into society, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) told reporters during a telephone conference call Jan. 13. Levin said, referring to Karzai: "He is confident that it can happen. We obviously aren't dealing with the top guys, the ideologues, the fanatics. But the huge number of lower-level people are putting IEDs...
