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A little Reuters story that doesn't fit with the official accounts:
[start excerpt]
Jun. 5, 2004. 01:00 AM
Did Taliban, U.S. talk about deal for Osama?
Report claims discussions in 2000 Could have sent him
to third country, trial
BERLIN—U.S. and Taliban officials met secretly in Frankfurt almost a year before the Sept. 11 attacks to discuss terms for Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a German television documentary.
No agreement was reached before the hijacked jet attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that killed 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
ZDF television quoted Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman, as saying he tried to broker a deal between the Americans and the Taliban of Afghanistan, who sheltered bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorists.
He quoted then Taliban foreign minister Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil as saying: "You can have him whenever the Americans are ready. Name us a country and we will extradite him."
A German member of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, confirmed to Reuters that in 1999, he helped Mohabbat contact the Americans. "I was told (by Mohabbat) that the Taliban had certain ideas about handing over bin Laden, not to the United States, but to a third country or to the Court of Justice in The Hague," Brok said.
"The message was: `There is willingness to talk about handing over bin Laden,' and the aim of the Taliban was clearly to win the recognition of the American government and the lifting of the boycott," he said. At the time, only Pakistan acknowledged the militant seminarians who had usurped power and ruled the Afghan people harshly. [end excerpt]
[start excerpt]
Jun. 5, 2004. 01:00 AM
Did Taliban, U.S. talk about deal for Osama?
Report claims discussions in 2000 Could have sent him
to third country, trial
BERLIN—U.S. and Taliban officials met secretly in Frankfurt almost a year before the Sept. 11 attacks to discuss terms for Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a German television documentary.
No agreement was reached before the hijacked jet attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that killed 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
ZDF television quoted Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman, as saying he tried to broker a deal between the Americans and the Taliban of Afghanistan, who sheltered bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorists.
He quoted then Taliban foreign minister Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil as saying: "You can have him whenever the Americans are ready. Name us a country and we will extradite him."
A German member of the European Parliament, Elmar Brok, confirmed to Reuters that in 1999, he helped Mohabbat contact the Americans. "I was told (by Mohabbat) that the Taliban had certain ideas about handing over bin Laden, not to the United States, but to a third country or to the Court of Justice in The Hague," Brok said.
"The message was: `There is willingness to talk about handing over bin Laden,' and the aim of the Taliban was clearly to win the recognition of the American government and the lifting of the boycott," he said. At the time, only Pakistan acknowledged the militant seminarians who had usurped power and ruled the Afghan people harshly. [end excerpt]
