Taliban Offered Us Bin Laden in 2001 But Bush Said "No Thankies"

[RadiomanATL]

You joined the claim and prooved nothing.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/education-and-history/139498-taliban-offered-us-bin-laden-in-2001-but-bush-said-no-thankies-3.html#post2909698

 

[High_Gravity]

RGS wrote:

Read your own link, they did not offer to give him up. They offered to let us try to prove to them, a biased source, that he was involved in terrorism. In other words even though the WORLD had seen his tapes declaring Jihad, had seen his tapes taking credit for terrorist attacks, the Taliban wanted some more proof he was a terrorist.

It was a political ploy to stop the bombings. There is no reason to believe they ever intended to actually turn him over.

I can understand your POV, RGS. I'm more disturbed that we never knew this in 2001 than by whether it was a missed opportunity. Why was this kept secret? I am unsure whether it would have been wise to at least explore the possibility of bin Laden being sent to a third country for trial, mebbe for a week. (The exploring of the idea, not the trial.) I could have lived with bin Laden being tried at The Hague, as long as after, he was executed.

What would a week have cost us in "dignity" compared to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Middle Easterners and the loss of life for thousands of American soldiers?

I knew about this, I remember hearing it on the news after 9/11. The Taliban were doing a song and dance, they never intended to really just hand over Bin Laden, they wanted proof that he was guilty and to try him in an Islamic court, where he would be found not guilty anyways. Plus if he was tried at the Hague he would not get the death penalty because in Europe the death penalty is out lawed. The Taliban were never serious about turning in Bin Laden or Al Qaeda because if they wanted to do it they could have just done it, they consider Binny and his Al Qaeda posse guests in that country and will fight to protect them.

 

[RespectForVets]

Bush blew 9/11. I don't blame it on him, but maybe if was not on vacation it wouldn't have happened. He was more concerned about golf that day.

 

[California Girl]

Bush blew 9/11. I don't blame it on him, but maybe if was not on vacation it wouldn't have happened. He was more concerned about golf that day.

I think you're confusing Bush with Obama.... Bush was at a kindergarten, reading to little kids when 9/11 broke.

You're rapidly losing the respect I have for one particular 'vet'.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

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.

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.

Another old man said: "We are poor people, don't hit us. We have nothing to do with Osama bin Laden. We are innocent people." Washington has not commented on the bombardment.

Mr Kabir said: "If America were to step back from the current policy, then we could negotiate." Mr bin Laden could be handed over to a third country for trial, he said. "We could discuss which third country."

But as American warplanes entered the second week of the bombing campaign, Washington rejected the Taliban offer out of hand. "When I said no negotiations I meant no negotiations," Mr Bush said. "We know he's guilty. Turn him over. There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt."

Earlier, in comments within a videotaped speech played at a meeting of the American Society of Anaesthesiologists, Mr Bush said his country was experiencing "one of the darkest moments in our history. Let me be clear about this. We will win the war on terrorism, and we will also continue to fight important battles at home."

One home-front battle is the growing unease in America about the outbreak of anthrax infections and the threat from bioterrorism. Another five employees of the Florida tabloid publishers – where one man died of the disease – were confirmed yesterday to have tested positive for exposure to the spores. Two states, New York and Florida, have now reported confirmed incidents of the disease and a third, Nevada, has reported discovery of anthrax spores in the post.

Several of Mr Bush's cabinet members tried to calm fears over anthrax when they appeared on television talk shows, but John Ashcroft, the Attorney General, said there was a chance the outbreaks were linked to Mr bin Laden. "We should consider this potential that it is linked [to Mr bin Laden]," he said. "It is premature at this time to decide whether there is a direct link."

Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden - Asia, World - The Independent

same thing happened under Clintons watch.two different countrys offered to extradict him to the us and Clinton told them to back off.It was all over the news back in 98 showing a general come on and say that they had cornered him and could take him out or capture him and he said right there on live world wide news that Clinton told him and his unit to back off of him and do nothing.Looks like he was being set up as a patsy for 9/11 as far back as then.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Bush blew 9/11. I don't blame it on him, but maybe if was not on vacation it wouldn't have happened. He was more concerned about golf that day.

Of course he was more concerned about Golf.Sports is about ALL Bushwacker was ever concerned about while president.