US President Barack Obama has signed a $680 billion defence appropriations bill with one provision giving commanders the ability to pay
Taliban members to switch sides, but some experts feel the programme may buy only temporary loyalty.
The payments to Taliban would be made under a Taliban reintegration provision under the Commander's Emergency Response Programme (CERP), which is now receiving $1.3 billion in the bill pay for military operations in the 2010 fiscal year, signed by Obama on Wednesday.
CERP funding is also intended for humanitarian relief and reconstruction projects at commanders' discretion.
The buyout idea, according to Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is to separate local Taliban from their leaders, replicating a programme used to neutralise the insurgency against Americans in Iraq.
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