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taliban & bin laden early 2001

dotola | 04.11.2001 18:15

piece in the independent re: u.s./nato access to bin laden

a clipping i found recently, dated early june, from the independent, stated that the taliban had made a formal approach to both the u.s. and nato offering to allow observers into afghanistan to monitor the movements of bin laden. at the time the piece was written, neither the u.s. nor nato had responded to the offer.
does anybody know anything more about this?

dotola

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link please

04.11.2001 19:42


Link to the article please

iago
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err

05.11.2001 02:12

sorry, can't provide any links - the cutting was on the back of something that i stuck into a scrapbook.....

dotola

search 4 it on the Independent site

05.11.2001 07:25

the independents web site has a search motor called bluestreak but it's pretty crap, I couldn't get back further that October, there were 200 articles already, maybe it's possible to access this info by another means ?
or if you know some of the key words, try searching for it on google, or what ever ...

Luther blissett

Taliban offer

05.11.2001 12:37

One of the interesting things that happened shortly after (or just before) the bombing started that did not get a lot of media attention was that the Taliban offered to extradite bin Laden to a third country. But this was not good enough for the US. It just shows that it is not really bin Laden they're after. They want to play the "great game" as so many other did in the colonial times.

Midnight Moron