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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (41513)	9/13/2001 12:16:16 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 65232

Bin Laden reportedly under house arrest Thursday, 13 September 2001 3:52 (ET) vny.com Bin Laden reportedly under house arrest ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistani newspapers reported Thursday that Taliban authorities placed alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden under house arrest near their headquarters in the southwestern Afghan city of Kandahar. A spokesman for the Taliban Embassy in Islamabad, Sohel Shaheen, told United Press International "We have placed him under control after the attacks." Shaheen was referring to Tuesday's terrorist attacks against New York and Washington. The Taliban had earlier said that they had severed bin Laden's communication links with the outside world but they never spoke of "placing him under control," which many in Pakistan describe as house arrest. Western diplomatic observers, however, said such claims were aimed at deflecting international criticism for harboring bin Laden and his terrorists in Afghanistan since 1996 when U.S. pressure forced him to abandon his safe haven in Sudan. They said that the United States and its allies would not accept anything less than an unconditional surrender of bin Laden and his aides to U.S. authorities. Pakistan's military government was reportedly sending its senior military officials to the Taliban headquarters in Kandahar, southwestern Afghanistan, to convince its spiritual leader Mullah Omar to expel bin Laden. Pakistan dispatched a delegation of senior civilian officials to Kabul Wednesday with a similar message but was told that only Mullah Omar could take such a decision. Meanwhile, the United Nations and other international relief agencies have withdrawn their staff from Afghanistan. Most of them have already reached Islamabad, triggering fears that a U.S. military offensive against the Taliban was imminent.

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