Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2030-1000826512-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5772 invoked by uid 510); 18 Sep 2001 15:22:21 -0000 Received: from n14.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.64) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 15:22:20 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2030-1000826512-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.224] by jk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 18 Sep 2001 15:21:54 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 18 Sep 2001 15:21:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 94390 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2001 15:21:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.224 with QMQP; 18 Sep 2001 15:21:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 15:21:53 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id IAA03612 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:21:53 -0700 Message-Id: <200109181521.IAA03612@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Taliban.wants.to.trade.recognition.as.government.for.bin.Laden] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Source: Bin Laden Extradition Possible By AMIR SHAH .c The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers discussed conditions for possibly extraditing Osama bin Laden to a country other than the United States, a Pakistan government source said Tuesday, hours after the Taliban urged Afghans to prepare for a holy war. The conditions, including international recognition of the Taliban government and the lifting of U.N. sanctions, were discussed Monday in Kandahar, headquarters of the Islamic militia that rules most of Afghanistan, the official said on condition of anonymity. No final agreement was reached. The Pakistani team had delivered a blunt message to the Taliban: hand over bin Laden or face certain attack by a multinational force led by the United States. The Pakistan delegation, which is currently in the Afghan capital of Kabul, was to return to Pakistan later Tuesday, the official said. A grand council of Islamic clerics was gathering Tuesday in Kabul to discuss the ultimatum. But the ruling Taliban have said bin Laden was wrongly implicated in last week's terror attacks on the United States. Warning of a possible U.S.-led attack, Taliban's leaders urged Afghans to prepare for a jihad, or holy war, against America, the official Bakhtar News Agency reported Tuesday. ``If America attacks our homes, it is necessary for all Muslims, especially for Afghans, to wage a holy war,'' Mullah Mohammed Hasan Akhund, the deputy Taliban leader, said Monday, according to the state-run Radio Shariat. ``God is on our side, and if the world's people try to set fire to Afghanistan, God will protect us and help us.'' Since taking control of most of Afghanistan in 1996, the Taliban have declared holy wars against the northern-based anti-Taliban alliance, Russia and Iran, but never the United States. Hundreds of Islamic clerics were converging on Kabul. ``About 300 ulema (clerics) have already arrived. We expect about 700, and we hope we can start later this afternoon,'' said Mullah Hamdullah Nomani, the Kabul mayor and convener of the grand council of Islamic clerics. The council includes clerics from across the country and is summoned whenever the Taliban government wants help in making key decisions. Bin Laden and his network of Islamic militants are the prime suspects in last week's airborne assaults on New York's World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon near Washington. The United States believes bin Laden has played a role in a number of attacks, including the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in East Africa. It seemed unlikely the United States would accept a plan for bin Laden to be extradited to another country and tried there for the crimes Washington has accused him of committing. Within hours of the Sept. 11 attack on the United States, the Taliban's foreign minister, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, condemned the violence and said it would have been impossible for bin Laden to carry out the assaults because he doesn't have the facilities for such an elaborate operation. Since then, the Taliban's leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, who has declared himself head of the Muslims, has defended bin Laden and accused the United States of pointing the finger in his direction because its investigators have been unable to come up with a real suspect. Bin Laden, a Saudi dissident, has been living in Afghanistan since 1996 and is accused by Washington of running a global terrorist network from his bases inside the war-ruined Central Asian nation. The Taliban, a hard-line Islamic militia that rules according to a strict interpretation of the Quran, have been placed under economic sanctions twice by the United Nations to press the earlier U.S. demand to hand over bin Laden for trial. The Taliban have consistently refused, calling bin Laden a ``guest'' and saying that to hand him over to non-Muslims would betray a tenet of Islam. The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said Tuesday that the U.S. government has authorized its nonessential embassy staff members and their families to evacuate Pakistan amid fears of possible violence and terrorist strikes against Americans. Several multinational companies also have evacuated their international staff because of concerns over possible violence. The State Department said that while Pakistan has expressed its full support for America's call for an international campaign against terrorism, there is ``some public sympathy and support for the Taliban, as well as for bin Laden.'' However, the U.S. Embassy and its consulates in Pakistan, an Islamic nation of 140 million people, were to continue their normal operations. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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