The New Statesman has published some "preview" quotes online:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/07/preview-michael-se...

The full interview is only available right now in the print edition; hopefully they will have the full article online after the current issue expires.

Clearly not everyone is on board with the above talking points:

Wedding-hall blast kills at least 19, including prominent Afghan lawmaker
By Laura King and Hashmat Baktash, Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2012

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck a wedding hall packed with VIPs from across northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 19 people, including a prominent anti-Taliban politician and a high-ranking police official.  There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which also left dozens injured.

President Hamid Karzai denounced the attack in Aybak, the provincial capital of Samagan province, and ordered a full investigation. He blamed “enemies of the people” -- the usual phrase for the Taliban and other insurgent groups.

The main target of the powerful explosion was apparently the father of the bride, Ahmad Khan Samangani. A member of parliament and a major powerbroker in the north of Afghanistan, he was a close associate of warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, a fellow ethnic Uzbek.

The attack, a sign of growing instability in the country’s relatively peaceful north, could signal either a power struggle among powerful northern warlords, most of them members of ethnic minorities, or a renewed campaign by the Taliban to assassinate leading figures in the Northern Alliance, the former militia that helped drive the group from power [....]