FLASHBACK:Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden

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Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden
Second week of bombing begins;Media visits village hit by missile

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Monday, 15 October 2001

After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban repeated an offer to hand over Osama bin Laden, only to be rejected by President Bush.

The offer yesterday from Haji Abdul Kabir, the Taliban's deputy prime minister, to surrender Mr bin Laden if America would halt its bombing and provide evidence against the Saudi-born dissident was not new but it suggested the Taliban are increasingly weary of the air strikes, which have crippled much of their military and communications assets.

The move came as the Taliban granted foreign journalists unprecedented access to the interior for the first time. Reporters were escorted to the village of Karam in southern Afghanistan, where the Taliban said up to 200 civilians were killed in an American bombardment last Wednesday.

The reporters saw clear evidence that many civilians had been killed in the attack, though they could not confirm the number of deaths. "I ask America not to kill us," pleaded Hussain Khan, who said he had lost four children in the raid. In the rubble of one house, the remains of an arm stuck out from beneath a pile of bricks. A leg had been uncovered near by...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Today is a good reminder what a Dumb ass Shrub was.

[babylonsister]

2. Rec'd. Thanks for the memories. So sad, yet

idiot son and darth were the first to line up with kudos for this President. Go figure.

[Traveling_Home]

3. Another take on talks

http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/US_met_taliban.htm

[merh]

4. That was the third offer that Bush rejected.

He was offered Bin Laden in February 2001, before the attack on the WTC & Pentagon.

He was offered Bin Laden after the attack and before we invaded Afghanistan.

He never cared about OBL.


And let us not forget that he rejected Saddam's offer to go into exile, an offer made before the shock, awe & invasion of Iraq.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. This is when my suspicions of the benign intentions of Bush and the Bush Junta first

sprang into existence. Remember it like it was yesterday.

To wit, Taliban did what any government would do, demanded to see the evidence before turning OBL over. If the positions were reversed and the Taliban demanded the U.S. turn you over to them, wouldn't you want the U.S. government to ask to see the evidence before turning you over?

Oh, but no. We don't need to provide no stinkin' evidence, we're going to smoke out those varmints. (Having Yosemite Sam flashbacks as I write.)

Colin Powell did promise a white paper would be released detailing evidence against OBL. No white paper was ever released to my knowledge, just one more lie among the litany of lies told by the Bush Junta over the years.