Karzai offers Taliban head security in talks

Afghan President Hamid Karzai offered Sunday to provide security for the Taliban's reclusive leader if he agrees to enter peace talks, and said the US and other Western nations could leave the country or oust him if they disagree.
Karzai's comments come as international political and military leaders are increasingly mulling whether negotiating with the Taliban is necessary as the insurgency gains sway in large areas of Afghanistan.
Karzai has long supported drawing the Islamist militia into the political mainstream on the condition that they accept the country's constitution.
"If I hear from (Mullah Omar) that he is willing to come to Afghanistan or to negotiate for peace and for the well-being of the Afghans so that our children are not killed anymore, I as a president of Afghanistan will go to any length to provide protection," Karzai told a news conference in Kabul.
"If I say I want protection for Mullah Omar, the international community has two choices, remove me or leave if they disagree," he said. "But we are not in that stage yet."
Meanwhile, a suicide attacker in police uniform killed two policemen and a civilian when he blew himself up at the entrance of a government compound in Afghanistan Monday, an official said.
The attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body after he was stopped by police while trying to enter the Dand district headquarters in the southern province of Kandahar, provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayobi told AFP.