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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 02:36 PM
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feed the Repuke-Doubters these little tid-bits of Bushco History...
Edited on Tue May-03-11 02:52 PM by kpete

U.S. rejects Taliban offer to try bin Laden


AFGHANISTAN
October 07, 2001
http://articles.cnn.com/2001-10-07/us/ret.us.taliban_1_abdul-salam-zaeef-surrender-bin-taliban-offer?_s=PM:US



Published on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 by Inter Press Service

U.S. Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass


by Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid- October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States would have to end bin Laden's terrorist career for the next nine years.

The al Qaeda leader was able to escape into Pakistan a few weeks later, because the Bush administration had no military plan to capture him.


The last Taliban foreign minister, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, offered at a secret meeting in Islamabad Oct. 15, 2001 to put bin Laden in the custody of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), to be tried for the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States, Muttawakil told IPS in an interview in Kabul last year.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50300

The OIC is a moderate, Saudi-based organisation representing all Islamic countries. A trial of bin Laden by judges from OIC member countries might have dealt a more serious blow to al Qaeda's Islamic credentials than anything the United States would have done with bin Laden.

the rest:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/03-6



AND NOW THIS:
US troops were yards from Osama bin Laden house in 2008 – WikiLeaks files



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/03/us-bin-laden-hideout


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o&feature=player_embedded

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(Looks like BUSHCO MISSED THIS GUY TOO)
WikiLeaks: Bin Laden's courier (killed alongside bin Laden in raid) 'trained 9/11 hijack team'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8489866/WikiLeaks-Bin-Ladens-courier-trained-911-hijack-team.html
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 02:36 PM
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1. k&r...
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 02:37 PM
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2. ya.... 5 months before iraq war saddam wanted to leave country with a now relatively small amount
of money. bushcos said no to that, too
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Duppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 02:47 PM
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3. Thank you!
Emailing it out.

RRRRR....
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 03:17 PM
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4. The DECIDER is such a VICTIM
That poor, poor millionaire -- I'm sure he's sulking right now as he clears brush (not).
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