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To: ratan lal who wrote (10687)	11/17/2001 1:30:42 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 281500

If what the authors say is true, Hmm... that would certainly be stretching credulity, as well as logic. I can perforate this conspiracy in one fell swoop... Watch... The Talibs were ready to conduct negotiations to deliver Bin Laden and asked to acknowledge their regime on the diplomatic level in return. The only way this would have been achieved would have been to overthrow Muhammed Omar. After all, Omar is married to Bin Laden's daughter and it wouldn't be proper Afghani etiquette to kick one's father in law out of the country and into the hands of the enemy. Thus, any claim by these Frenchies about some "deal" being made to betray Bin Laden to the US in exchange for political recognition is incredibly disingenuous, if not blatantly naive. The "truth" is that Bin Laden was the REAL power behind the Taliban, and had cemented that power through inter-marital alliances which guaranteed, lacking a military overthrow of the Taliban, a permanent military base of operations for his followers. And oil deals would not have altered that equation. Hawk

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