Counterpunch and globalist, oh my.
No problem if you just enter the info like I did into Google you will find many, MANY news reports so you can pick your favorite I just grabbed the one randomly.
You tell me the News source that you prefer and I will find the article for you. That’s how prevalent the news stories about this are.
Or how about government officials and declassified documents will they work? Would you believe the recently released State Department documents, from March 2000, about a proposed “gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan, Pakistan figured prominently in discussions” regarding the US geo-political goal in the region and how those damn Iranians were interfering with US goals by another proposed pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan whose negotiations were “more advanced”, and how Pakistanis had gone to Tehran to meet with Iranian officials “to pursue these negotiations”.
https://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc01.pdf
FIRST do you at least believe the Atlantic and the Wall Street journal when they both reported that the Taliban were so frustrated in January and February 1999 with OBL that they were about to kick OBL out of Afghanistan?
Do you believe the New York Times story which followed immediately after the emails about “Kicking out” OBL that the Taliban then violently arrested OBL in an exchange of gunfire and then sent emissaries to the US asking for help in dealing with OBL where “Taliban's leaders have at least three ways to deal with him that would be acceptable to the United States, senior American officials said.”
*They could arrange secretly for members of another nation's intelligence service to learn of his whereabouts in Afghanistan.
*They could deliver him discreetly to a neighboring country, where American law-enforcement and intelligence officers could try to apprehend him.
*Or they could keep Mr. bin Laden incommunicado in the hope that he might fade as a source of anti-American terrorism.
“Some American officials think this last solution the best, since it holds no risk of making Mr. bin Laden a martyr, which could inspire fresh attacks against the United States from his followers.”
If so then following the same chain of events which showed that the Taliban had been getting more and more fed-up with OBL until Mullah Omar ordered the violent arrest of OBL and sent emissaries to the US asking for help getting rid of OBL and then according to the Washington Post:
Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil says in the meeting, “You can have him whenever the Americans are ready. Name us a country and we will extradite him.” Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Pakistan at the time of 9/11, confirmed that such proposals had been made to US officials. But a “political decision” was made by US officials not to continue the negotiations.
About 20 more meetings on giving up Bin Laden took place up until 9/11, all fruitless. CIA station Chief Robert Grenier, said about the meetings; “They were saying, ‘Do something to help us give him up.’… I have no doubts they wanted to get rid of him. He was a pain in the neck.” The Taliban also proposed to hold bin Laden, who was at this time a prisoner, in one location long enough for the US to locate and kill him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A3483-2001Oct28¬Found=true
Ok we will pick up from here after I find out if you trust the above sources or if you need more sources to prove that we are up to this point being 1999 where any relations have completely broken down between the Taliban and OBL where by the Taliban are desperately negotiating with the US to take OBL off their hands.
So let me know if we have AT LEAST made it this far in which there is agreement so I can move on with what take place next with the Taliban and US negotiations.
