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To: long-gone who wrote (77001)	9/20/2001 9:22:40 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

Afghan clerics ask Osama to leave voluntarily straitstimes.asia1.com.sg KABUL -- Islamic clerics from across Afghanistan on Thursday adopted a resolution asking Osama bin Laden to leave Afghanistan of his own accord, a Taleban official told AFP. The clerics also passed a resolution that called for a jihad, or holy war, if the United States attacks Afghanistan, said Mullah Mohammad Muslim Haqqani, the deputy minister for higher education. 'They asked the Taleban to persuade Osama to leave Afghanistan at the proper time and of his own choice,' Mullah Haqqani, a participant in the talks, told AFP minutes after the meeting finished. 'They also said that if the US attacks Afghanistan it will be the obligation of every Muslim to carry out jihad.' The resolutions were passed at the end of a two-day meeting of hundreds of clerics from all 32 provinces of Afghanistan. Haqqani said that the elders had asked Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar to make a decision as soon as possible, indicating that although the resolution should be binding, Omar was the supreme spiritual authority and would have the last word. For US President George W. Bush and his military planners in the Pentagon, the resolution is unlikely to satisfy US demands for Osama's immediate and unconditional extradition. -- AFP

To: long-gone who wrote (77001)	9/20/2001 3:18:28 PM
From: denekin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116753

I suspect that our desire to find a single mastermind culprit is obtuse...it is part of our John Wayne/Hollywood mind set...and it suggests that we don't understand terrorist organizations as well as we should...while there is certainly a central organizer, and it may well be Bin Laden, I am sure lots of different organizations and groups contributed to 9/11, some perhaps, not really knowing what they were part of... we will fail in our desire to eradicate Terrorism if we treat the enemy as an organized unit...We are like the Nazis fighting the french resistance...When D Day came the employees of a French Government Mapping department all discovered that they had all been working for the French Resistance, and all secretly contributing to mapping the coast of brittany and normandy for the allies, but were part of different cells...one cause, dozens to different armies...this is the difficulty...