with a Quranic verse in black __ out of public view on Wednesday.

"There is an internal discussion right now and much anger about it but we have not yet decided what action to take," Shaheen Suhail, the Taliban's spokesman in Qatar told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "But I think it weakens the process from the very beginning."

Afghan President Hamid Karzai reacted furiously Tuesday to the sign, temporarily withdrawing from talks and put a quick end to negotiations with the United States over a security accord that is to lay out protection for U.S. forces that will remain in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO combat troops at the end of 2014.

A Qatar Foreign Ministry statement said the Taliban had violated an agreement to call theoffice the "Political Bureau of the Taliban Afghan in Doha."

But Suhail said the incident has frustrated and angered some within the militant movement who said the Taliban have been meeting with representatives of dozens of countries and holding secret one-on-one meetings with members of Karzai's High Peace Council on several occasions, always under the banner of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

"Now the process is being weakened at the beginning and not being given a chance," he said. "This is very bad for the Afghan people, for the international community."

Meanwhile James Dobbins, the U.S. Special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, arrived in Doha on Saturday. He would be joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's delegation in Doha to attend meetings on Syria but his presence there also suggests