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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 08:50 PM
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President Kill Wanted Killing: Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html

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.

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Omnibus Donating Member (676 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-03-11 09:48 PM
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1. Thanks for reminding us of this.
I'd never seen this story personally, I hadn't discovered UK news sites by 2001. I think I'll post it on facebook and see if my conservative friends can debunk it. Trial by fire!
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crickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 01:37 AM
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2. Vile. K&R
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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 01:43 AM
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3. Silly
No matter how this article wants to paint it the Taliban refused to give up bin laden unless we proved to them he was responsible. Bush sucks but the Taliban dug in their heels on this and as bad as bush was and continues to be the idea they were making the offer described in the article in good faith is laughable.
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 05:13 AM
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4. Why?
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