"BOB KLAHN -> ALL" <1:123/140> wrote in news:192$CONTROVERSIAL@JamNNTPd:   
      
    BK>   Just a bit found online. From Oct 2001.   
      
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    BK>    War in Afghanistan   
      
    BK>   ...   
      
    BK>   Although the Taliban had refused to turn Osama bin Laden over   
    BK>   to the United States, it had offered 1) to negotiate, 2) to put   
    BK>   him on trial in an Islamic court and 3) to turn him over to a   
    BK>   third country if the United States provided evidence of his   
    BK>   guilt. These offers were rejected out of hand by the Bush   
    BK>   administration as nothing more than delaying tactics.   
      
   And conservative republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher had this to say   
   about the Taliban:   
      
   "[Rohrabacher] says the Taliban are devout traditionalists--not terrorists   
   or revolutionaries. He believes a Taliban takeover [of Afghanistan] would   
   be a positive development."   
      
   --Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 1996 issue   
      
   http://www.ocweekly.com/2002-09-12/features/rogue-statesman/   
      
   Just the same old same old.   
   "Sure he's a murderous thug, but he's *OUR* murderous thug."   
      
   --- Xnews/5.04.25   
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