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BUSTED Taliban offered to hand over Bin Laden in February 2001 BUSH REJECTED OFFER

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On 21st February 2001 (7 MONTHS BEFORE 9/11) The Taliban offered to hand over Osama Bin Laden in return for lifting the sanctions that were placed on the country. They also desperately tried to hand Bin Laden over to the USA after a week of heavy bombing when the war started in Afghanistan as so many civilians were being killed.

The Independent- Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden-

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-su...

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 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."

Thanks to zedalis for the original upload in 2006 !

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  • Ari Fleischer is a fucking asshole.

  • Yes. Thanks a lot for the prompt Alice.

  • @Skinwearein1 Was it on Charlie Rose?

  • @giggidy87 how does one person get to be so stupid?...is it genetics or did you learn it?........

  • @MultiBlinkey welll obviously they do care about him otherwise he wont be on the top ten most wanted list!! there is a reward for him and even though they were willing to hand him over bush rejected it!!!

  • I watched a very interesting video on you tube last week in which a 24 year old Taliban representative was interviewed on American television almost begging for the Americans to take Osama bin Laden off there hands. It was filmed Jan/Feb 2001.I have searched and searched and can no longer find it. Where has it gone and where on the web can it now be found?

  • US under Obama and US under Bush ARE 2 different things, therefore america is 2 different things. Bush = retard, Obama = well, Libyan war is justifiable but not accepting Gadaffi's step down is out of line.

  • Who fucking knows? Terrorism: to cause physiological and psychological damage, acute, as well as chronic.

    happening every day here in the US.

  • Fuck the Zionists

  • @giggidy87 It's not worth commenting on these videos. There just ways for the people who post them and others who believe the crazy conspiracy theories to deal with self esteem problems and such by feeling different.

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