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No, the taliban did not refuse to do that - Bush refused to take him * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 https://www.theguar

by hobs 3y ago

No, the taliban did not refuse to do that - Bush refused to take him * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te... * https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80482&page=1 https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80482&page=1

macintux 3y ago
That was a highly-conditional offer, that I suspect the U.S. administration felt was designed to give the Taliban and bin Laden breathing room to escape/hide/whatever their next move would have been.
- hobs 3y ago
  Well thankfully we put a stop to that and immediately brought an end to the conflict and captured Osama without billions of dollars and a potential war!
  - twixfel 3y ago
    Yeah if only the Taliban had handed over Bin Laden to North Korea, then I'm sure justice would have been served.
lolinder 3y ago
In those links, the Taliban wasn't offering to hand Bin Laden over to the US, they were offering to hand him over to a third country that would never hand him over to the US. We can argue about whether Bush should have agreed to that offer, but it's a far cry from "refusing to take him": > Afghanistan's deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir, told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US. > "If the Taliban is given evidence that Osama bin Laden is involved" and the bombing campaign stopped, "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country", Mr Kabir added. > But it would have to be a state that would never "come under pressure from the United States", he said.
bnralt 3y ago
From the first link: > In Jalalabad, deputy prime minister Haji Abdul Kabir - the third most powerful figure in the ruling Taliban regime - told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, but added: "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country". > The offer came a day after the Taliban's supreme leader rebuffed Bush's "second chance" for the Islamic militia to surrender Bin Laden to the US. > Mullah Mohammed Omar said there was no move to "hand anyone over".

by hobs 3y ago

macintux 3y ago

That was a highly-conditional offer, that I suspect the U.S. administration felt was designed to give the Taliban and bin Laden breathing room to escape/hide/whatever their next move would have been.

hobs 3y ago
Well thankfully we put a stop to that and immediately brought an end to the conflict and captured Osama without billions of dollars and a potential war!
- twixfel 3y ago
  Yeah if only the Taliban had handed over Bin Laden to North Korea, then I'm sure justice would have been served.

lolinder 3y ago

In those links, the Taliban wasn't offering to hand Bin Laden over to the US, they were offering to hand him over to a third country that would never hand him over to the US. We can argue about whether Bush should have agreed to that offer, but it's a far cry from "refusing to take him": > Afghanistan's deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir, told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US. > "If the Taliban is given evidence that Osama bin Laden is involved" and the bombing campaign stopped, "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country", Mr Kabir added. > But it would have to be a state that would never "come under pressure from the United States", he said.

bnralt 3y ago

From the first link: > In Jalalabad, deputy prime minister Haji Abdul Kabir - the third most powerful figure in the ruling Taliban regime - told reporters that the Taliban would require evidence that Bin Laden was behind the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, but added: "we would be ready to hand him over to a third country". > The offer came a day after the Taliban's supreme leader rebuffed Bush's "second chance" for the Islamic militia to surrender Bin Laden to the US. > Mullah Mohammed Omar said there was no move to "hand anyone over".