Hi all; Stupidly, the Taliban continues to try to play "Lets Make A Deal":
Taliban offers deal on aid workers
Times of India, October 6, 2001
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan's ruling Taliban offered on Saturday to release eight foreign aid workers on trial for preaching Christianity, if the United States withdraws its threat of military strikes, according to CNN.
The aid workers would be released "if the United States stops its mass propaganda of military action," CNN quoted Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakel as saying in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
The foreign aid workers, arrested in early August along with 16 Afghan collegues, are two Americans, two Australians and four Germans.
During their last court appearance in Kabul a week ago, the Taliban promised they would receive a fair trial, despite the threat of US military action against Afghanistan, where the militia is harboring terror suspect Osama Bin Laden.
The detained workers are Germans Georg Taubmann, Margrit Stebnar, Kati Jelinek and Silke Duerrkopf, Australians Peter Bunch and Diana Thomas, and Americans Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry.
Under the Taliban's radical brand of "Islamic" law, the maximum penalty for trying to convert Afghan Muslims to another faith is death. The militia has refused to explain the exact charges against the aid workers.
timesofindia.com
-- Carl |
