"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."

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