In 2001 Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender Bin Laden

The Independent published an article in Monday, 15 October 2001 about Bush 
rejecting an offer from a Taliban:
 
 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 offer yesterday from Haji Abdul Kabir, the Taliban’s deputy  prime minister, 
to surrender Mr bin Laden if America would halt its  bombing and provide 
evidence against the Saudi-born dissident was not  new but it suggested the 
Taliban are increasingly weary of the air  strikes, which have crippled much of 
their military and communications  assets.
 
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.”
Read the entire articel here: 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bush-rejects-taliban-offer-to-surrender-bin-laden-631436.html


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