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To: joseph krinsky who wrote (12469)	1/1/2002 10:10:23 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 27762

Why deny the obvious? West is best Full Story: nationalpost.com Robert Fulford National Post Even as he drew his last journalistic breath, Anthony Lewis of The New York Times maintained his faith in moral equivalence, the ultimate affliction of the liberal mind. People like Mr. Lewis claim to consider one culture as good as another. They are embarrassed by the thought that the West, having accomplished much more during the last half-millennium or so, stands well above other contemporary civilizations.... Con't at link above very interesting

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (12469)	1/1/2002 10:21:29 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27762

Zaeef fails in getting political asylum. Updated on 1/1/2002 10:14:56 AM ISLAMABAD (Online): Bowing ahead intense US pressure Pakistan has refused to bestow political asylum to the top Taliban leadership and diplomats, it is learnt reliably.“The government of Pakistan has formally informed some of Taliban senior leaders and diplomats including former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam that they and their families would not be entertained for political asylum,” sources in the interior ministry told Online here Monday. The government has rejected their (Taliban leaders) applications due to intense US pressure, sources said and added the government fears that after giving them asylum, various Pashtoon Afghan leaders who were supporters of Taliban would also seek asylum in Pakistan. The government is of the view that bestowing asylum to Taliban leaders and diplomats could create law and order situation in the country. Former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Maulvi Rehmat Ullah Kakazada are among top Taliban leaders who had been requested for asylum. It is also learnt that these Taliban leaders have also been officially asked to leave Pakistan at the earliest Meanwhile the United States has announced five million dollars bounty for providing credible information leading to the whereabouts of Taliban supreme leader, Mulla Muhammad Omar and top leaders of the ousted students’ militia and al-Qaeda network. The pamphlets and small size posters dropped from American B-52 bombers in Parachinar town and the border areas of Kurram Agency on Sunday, not only carried the false photograph of Taliban leader Mulla Muhammad Omar but has shown a young Osama bin Laden in western dress without beard, thin moustaches and a broad smiling face. The text of one of the posters, both in Pashto and Dari languages, has used derogatory remarks about the person of Osama bin Laden calling him coward and killer, who left the Afghans and his al-Qaeda members in the lurch to flee from Tora Bora. frontierpost.com.pk