Shrewd or Stupid?

  I don’t know if this guy Kai Eide is extremely shrewd or naïvely stupid in wanting to remove senior Taliban from the terrorist list.  Could this be a clever move to cause a rift between the Taliban and al-Qaida?

U.N. Seeks to Drop Some Taliban From Terror List – NYTimes.com
KABUL, Afghanistan — The leader of the United Nations mission here called on Afghan officials to seek the removal of at least some senior Taliban leaders from the United Nations’ list of terrorists, as a first step toward opening direct negotiations with the insurgent group.  The United Nations’ Kai Eide said he hoped that moves would help lead to talks between Afghan officials and Taliban leaders.

In an interview, Kai Eide, the United Nations special representative, also implored the American military to speed its review of the roughly 750 detainees in its military prisons here — another principal grievance of Taliban leaders. Until recently, the Americans were holding those prisoners at a makeshift detention center at Bagram Air Base and refusing to release their names.